, 1890-04-13

Altar a long, severe argument, how
ever, wiser council prevailed, and the
price was stricken out, The trans
Missouri country will enthusiastically &c
in for a good showing, and will also at
tend the fair prepared to hguratlVely
knock out the eye and gather IN the
Etruscan pelts of the great nations OF the
earth.
California. among other salient feat
ures, is the proud possessOr OF what is
called an average rainfall. Every child
wen knows what it is now, what 1t was
in ~ and as far back as history extends.
Fourteen to sixteen inches will do the
business in agricultural districts very
well, but this year it has been from forty
20 ITO inches, according to locality. The
Santa Clara valley has wetness enough
TO last for four years, and yet only in low
parts Of the country will crops be delayed
or injured by the great rainfall.
asked a well known railroad man the
other day what he thought would be the
general effect on business il the govern
ment should take charge OF the railroads
and ~telegraphs. He said he thought Il
would be anything but soothing. L
such an event, !" said he. business would
be subyerted to politics, | think. On cleo.
ton day trains would be delayed and voted
in the doubtful states. Washouts would
give large party gains to the ruling lowers.
kilograms would be affected more or less
10 the rapidity Of their flight by their po-
litical tenor, and the administration or
gan would be able TO get Sunday trains
for its mammoth editions. while the op.
position paper would run of the track or
be held for orders. We eau get all the
corruption we need, | think, without ex-
tending its scope or possibilities. | would
hate to see a Hester street heller reward
ed by being made a government train dis
patcher on my road. You can educate a
postmaster pretty well in four years. but
you take a green politician and try to
make a train dispatcher or a division sup
eriutendent out Of him and you are liable
to be bitterly disappointed in him."
We had last week on the train a style
of passenger common to this free country.
He was a Russian by birth and had made
some money in this country by a happy
accident in the price Of rags or the sud
den advance in old clothes. Doubtless in
his old home across the ocean he had
slept at night on a heap of straw and
eaten the brunette bread OF the plain
people. Here he had made money under
lhc lOaltTlng care OF our Tree lnstltu-
tons and rode in a sleeping car Vul-
garity had early marked him for its own,
and so, ever with a silk hat and an over
coat with a tur collar on it, one could see
that he would be more at home sleeping
in the lott of a livery stable with his
whiskers full of barley straw.
He found fault with everything, and
in half an hour had won his way to the
hearty and cordial hatred of every one in
the car. He asked me what | paid for
berth to San Francisco. | told him.
but | told him two dollars less than the
price because he was well calculated %
call forth that kind of an answer. He
was wild. He wanted to Jump off the
train and go back to the office to get his
" dollars back. | then posted the other
passengers, and they came and pitied HIM
till he frothed at the mouth.
People told him that the company
must have n prejudice against HIM for
something. Everyone pitied him and
felt sorry for hun. Finally We got Va
working the same thing on him in other
directions. We would ask him what he
paid Tor his dinner and other meals. Then
we would find out tina he had been
robbed again. We would buy fruit Of
the train boy. according to a previous ar
rangement with him, a price at least SO
per cent. below what he could get the
same goods for. Then we would 70 over
and feel sorry for him, and ask him if