The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-06

you do not know what real, keen enjoy
ment and vanity is tor are, rather). We
could put our feet on the seats, smoke,
gamble till after bedtime, talk loud, drink
out of all the ice water tanks at once, wipe
our faces on two clean towels at . time
and just give ourselves up 10 delicious
sense of l2wlessnesS that made me feel
young again.
can still remember how I felt the first
tline l rode on pass. | did not need the
trlp, and lost two days at the office 10 do
II, nut could not be comfortable with the
beautiful pass IN my pocket. | rose when
the conductor came to me and showed
MN my pass. | watched the rest OF the
poor, unknown passengers to see how 1t
Would strike them, poor people, common
working people. who had 10 pad full rates
and sit on the woodbox.
he conductor looked me over so that he
would know me next time, and then he
sad: This pass is only good on the
snort Line. Its no good on this train"
paid ann the money that was going
TO TOOL away on an overcoat, and that
nlght, instead OF putting up at the Grand
motel, paused ut the Travellers Home, q
pain place provided for the entertainment
OF man and beast Tin the same rooms)
II owned railroad or two and could
rlde IN special Car, I'd be just as naughty
N'-OSN %NiAtlCliicu are VINO no So, 4 al
AFRAID. Wealth naturally engenders an
element of Taught, | think, and yet I'd
IKE 70 try It, If for nothing more than TO
pe able 10 give the engineer cottage and
the conductor q COW every time took a
trip.
This morning, on the way TO Louisville,
L saw handsome man with white side
whlskers sleeping in our parlor car. l
thought at first that il was John Bright,
who made such hit with his great dis
ease. but then, | thought, il cannot be
Bright, for he is dead
Soon he opened his eyes pleasantly,
waking up like little daffodil on wind
swept mead. Then | saw that he was
Daniel Doughertv. He was TO speak at
Louisville soon, and so he was going there.
When he has to speak at a place he begins
by going there. He was right glad to see
me. and his face lighted up the moment he
saw me with such look of delirious
pleasure that felt glad / could shed such
sunlight on the pathway of others. Mr..
Dougherty is a most eloquent speaker.
keen judge of intellect and ability in
Others. and is writing life of Edwin For
rest, which will be sold only by subscrip-
ton; i'll cloth. $3.50; library style, $4; full
Russia, with beveled edges. So.
1t was in Michigan week ago that Mr..
Burbank and | went TO the drug store 10
get some things in the way OF grease
paints and fake white for identifying and
whitening the neck and arms for evening
dress. Mr.. Burbank inquired for some
rouge de theatre. That means theatrical
rouge. L give this explanation because |
am good French scholar, and used TO
translate French novels until | had Sc
we're illness which showed me how uncer-
tain life is, and then | made a solemn
promise that would be a better man. So
| do not translate French novels now. [
far fro, f,ar hs2 of.
yet, but | have made that much OF n
stride in the right direction.
Got any rouge?" Mr.. b. asked.
ANY what?"
Rouge"
"Rouge2"
"Yes, rouge"
why, l believe so. What color do you
want?"
This is not the creation of feverish inn
agination or just seven tat lines to tickle
the printer alone. 1t is the eternal truth,
and | can prove it.
Near the Kentucky line on the j., NJ. IL
/. road, my attention was called to an
obese gentleman with a chin beard which
looked as though it had been used for
thirty or forty years as a hearth broom.
He ate apples, slept and visited the ice
water end of the car often. accompanied
by large barometer with cork in it.
Sometimes he would ask the rest of us
to go with him and see what the weather
was going TO be for the blue grass country.
He generally went by himself and re-
turned with happy tears in his eyes and
breath that would polish plate glass
mirror and remove warts, freckieS, tan,
super,luous hair and Democratic votes.
Then he would take out his teeth and
cleanse them neatly on the linen cover of
the parlor car chair. He was just that neat
aud pernickety that everything about him
must be nice and clean, even his teeth.
Then he would eat an apple with his
pocketkuife. carefully wiping it on his
trousers before and after using 1t. | never
saw such q neat man. Then he would go
again to the tank with his barometer and
come back, dignihed, but courtly and kind.
Once he met handsome little blonde
bow in the aisle and reached out to pat HIM
on the head, but his weather researches
had worn him out pretty well, so he missed
the child and struck an old woman from
Peru, Ind, on the brow, pulling off her
spectacles and sticking them IN her lunch
before he could recover.
As write these lines he sits opposite
me asleep. Judging by the wrinkles IN the
root Of his mouth, | would say that he IS
a man about IS years of age, but wonder
fully well preserved.
He has done 1t himself. He has done 1T
BIZ means of alcohol. You know self
preservation is the first law of nature.
But | oughtn't to make such light and
fiippant remarks about SO gentle and low
able a man as he seems TO be; q man
whose whole being is as open as the day,
as far as the eye can reach. feel half
ashamed now that | have exposed him
even thus 10 my gentle and Indulgent
reader.
He shows every mark Of a most kindly
nature. and III bet anything that viii be
respectable and not regarded as gambling
that no hungry man ever left mis- door and
no homeless wanderer ever, with wet eyes,
turned hoDelessly from that broad and
welcome doOrmat al the portals OF the
home where this old gentleman resides.
| feel sure that TO sorrowlng heart ever
came 10 HIN for gentle pity and cheer that
went hungry away; no broken-wlnged
bird with grieving cry ever came 70 nestle
In that broad and resonant breast 10 be
dubbed away with cold and cruel scorn;
vet grieve 10 say that as 1 sit here writ
ing these words and look far down into his
open face no one can deny that the last
time ne wiped of his teeth he must have
been thinking Of sonethi ng else, Tor the
lowers are on the upper side ana the vul-
canned rubber roof of his mouth Is down
stairs. so that he seems almost 10 be stand
ing on his head. II makes me almost
4 .x1r- ~ i.,a.- az him NON. 50 no more 1t