The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-01-16
BILL NYFS TRAVELS ;
A CRAgKER-MAN's USEFUL ! BACK
AND TIE GREAT MIND OF NUTS. y

! A CRACKER MANS useful, 1ik !, BAgak a
K ANDTHE GREAT MIND OF NUTS
a -ISif.ff i I9Un-L- 5iSi 9iiJ 10 tVnis
/ Almost Tragedy THY HotelA With
I Characteristic Gallantry, he Would
| Rescue a Helpless = Fema!e, But He
i Changed His Mind. y1oss91i eh' MON
Tfson. he Sss M ' Yers 9Woar5la7 WIo5l 7a' !, s,sa Us
A short time ago / got iipi this llcar
| to use it for riding purposes There
were only seven people in it, and so /
picked the lock q, the seat ahead Of
me; thn5 thus, giving fn1 fqll scope ;t9 PSr 1.-THE
and blithe sweep Of legs IF also gays
me q chance 70 write "a few lines for
At west Gintty Gtt "a fat Il man aGy With It'll
i a box of sample crackers in one hand
and sandhag il the other came into
car, and seeing that / had an air of
4 comfort which sent the hot blood
mantling to his marble brow-his
marble mantling brow, as it MereThe
1 whopped that front seat ,oYersin such
"a way as to fracture my ny leg a; little,
but ! did not get mad, If does not
Epay for one to get mad, or even two
for that matter, SO ! went on writing,
though, Of course, the incident gave a
tinge of sadness to my work .Is 80,
/ have large. valuable, new fur
top coat which I bought ia Montreal
in November. T got it in order TO; In
sure an open " inter. This coat hung
Eagainst the window, and as the train
moved swiftly forward, sometimes on
the track and then again on on the ropglh, q,
and frozen prairie, this coat would
ever and anon Joyfdily knock out the
/ eye of this great coarse man. It Is, do
ing so yet. And / am making a writ
ing desk of his back: A friend Of
mine is thoughtlessly using his over
shoes as receptacle for his apple
cores, and the rest of the people are
enjoying it. . ~ ia :, - -,
Z That is, everybody except a family
| who got on at Dead Mans Crossing
They consist Of father, a mother and
a grown daughter.3 They. have not
been accustomed very, much to travel,
as one can see at once, for they
evidently think t1ey are only entitled
to one seat among them, and the whole
three of them are sitting together in
great pain, for the mother is quite
robust and the father will do for mar
ket by February. So, while the rest
of us are trying to hold whole sec
tion apiece, these gentle creatures are
scrouging and suffering. aa3 sia 5sF'-n
In another part of the car some
! young men, ontheir way home from
college,, are singing. They do not
sing we'll. They are the kind Of col
lege boys who do the hazing and have
their speeches written for them by a
poor boy who wears paper collars.
They sing gayly the chaste and beau
| tiful sentiments entitled "Youpidee ]
die song, / may truthfully say
which no man can listen to in the
right spirit and not go away better
man. a bsss3sTg szA III -4s5a
One of the voices is quite piercing
Mr.. Riley says he would like to Dor
row it to scour knives with. u The
voice of the tenor, he claims, has fer
rule on the end of it, and when the
rollicking sophomore strikes 6 or
fourth added line above !, his mouth
looks like stab in the dark. a;.J -. %,
| A small boy in the back seat grows
| pale as the song proceeds, totters te
the ice-water tank and drinks. it dry
draws ,.his Voverworked, jacket sleeve
across his dripping mouth, and, going
back to his seat, finishes UP the last
round Of candy ammunition from :
glass revolver and a red rolling pir.9
We now pull up between two Ions
lines Of cars loaded with hogs, anc
wait for orders, The cracker,ma1
ahead of me starts violently every
time the other ones ,squeal So, he i
not entirely devoid of heart after all
He certainly sympathizes with rth'
lardy da passengers in the other train
and blood, after all, is thicker thar
water.
The peanutter now comes to ask mt
if 1 would not like pair of embroid
ed moccasins,.. with coiored beads OF
them, or some other literary work
He shows me some nice gum arab,
figs, while I hold his large basket fol
him. I tell him T do not, care for figs
especially the elastic OF non. corrosiv,
| fig made at the Pulmad car works
Then he tries to sell me the holiday
number of TIE War Cty I say no
I do not need it. He then urges M
i to buy a copy of book entitled
I"Hounded to the Southwest Corner o
j Perdition and Back by the authoro o
"Wheae Is My Girl Tonight e. sta
I, tell him courteouslys that j
wouldn't choose any, He seeks thel
to sell me book containing 2, ,OOl
words, and also some tables that h'
. says are;quite thrilling.d5 Isdrawd hin
: outin regard to his Il books He il
more interesting than his literature
; He finally admits, after b have tolt
him how Iydislike these dashy book
ike s'Loaking Backward, = that h
has not read any of his CAREFUL,
selected library, although ever read,
and willing to enter into q. heated dis
cussion regarding these books. !
, seems that he gets all his information
from the passengers. He does no
read the books, himself, , a man says
III do not want that book Of Zola's; j
is. too prudish.n Then, Of course, b
Iremem bers and treasures up the re
mark SO that the next time througl
) the car he can bring cne thatIis not .
Il prudish And SO on.
/ Finally, the young man gives m
his promise that some day hea vii
5 bathe his hands and read some Of. .hi
t books Then heltriesto SELF nae a fin