The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-08

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gamble till after bedtime, talk loud,
drink out of all the ice water tanks ut
once, wipe our faces on two clean towels
at time and just give ourselves up to a
delicious sense of lawlessness that made
me feel young again.
| | can still remember how | felt the
| first time | rode Oil a pass. did not
need the trip, and / lost two days at the
Office to do it, but | could not be COM
Portable with the beautiful pass in my
pocket. l rose when the conductor came
to me and showed him my pass. l
watched the rest Of the poor, unknown
passengers to see how it would strike
them, poor people, common working peo-
pie, who had to pay full rates and sit on
the woodbox.
The conductor looked me over so that
he would know me next time, and then
he said: This pass is only good on the
Short Line. It's no good on this train"
paid him the money that was 60
ing to fool away on an overcoat, and
that night, instead Of putting up at the
Grand hotel, paused at the Travellers
Home, plain place provided for the en-
tertainment of man and beast Gin the
same rOomsl.
if [ owned a railroad or two and could
ride in a special car, I'd be just as
naughty as those gentlemen are who do
so, I'm afraid. Wealth naturally en-
genders an element of haught, think,
and yet I'd like to try it, if for nothing
more than to be able to give the engi-
neer a cottage and the conductor a COW
every time | took trip
This morning, on the way to Louis
vile, l saw a handsome man with white
side whiskers sleeping In our parlor car.
| thought at first that it was John
Bright, who made such a hit with his
great disease, but then, l thought, it
cannot be Bright, for he is dead.
Soon he opened his eyes pleasantly,
waking up like little daffodil on the
wind swept mead. Then l saw that he
was Daniel Dougherty. He was to speak
at Louisville soon, and so he was going
there. When he has to speak at 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 path
way Of others. Mr.. Dougherty is most
eloquent speaker, keen judge of intel
lect and ability in others, and is writing
a life of Edwin Forrest, which will be
sold only by subscription, in cloth, $3.50;
library style, 81; full Russia, with bev-
eled edges, So.
1t was in Michigan a week ago that
Mr.. Burbank and | went to the drug
store to get some things in the way Of
grease paints and flake white for beauti-
flying and whitening the neck and arms
for evening dress. Mr.. Burbank in
CURED for some rouge de theatre. That
means theatrical rouge. give this ex-
PLANTATION because | am good French
scholar, and used to translate French
novels until had a severe illness which
showed me how uncertain life is, and
then | made q solemn promise that
would be a better man. So do not
translate French novels now. am far
from what | ought to be, of course, yet,
but l have made that much of stride
in the right direction.
SCOT any rouge:" Mr.. B. asked.
"Any what:'
"Rouge"
Rouge
eyes, rouge"
"Why, believe so. What color do
you WANT
This is not the creation of feverish |
imagination or just seven fat lines to
tickle the printer alone. 1t is the eter-
nal truth, and can proveit.
Near the Kentucky line, on the J. II. |
and l. 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 hearth |
broom. He ate apples, slept and visited /
the ice water end of the car often, ac- |
by large barometer with a
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 coun-
try. He generally went by himself and |
with happy tears in his eyes
and breath that would polish plate
glass mirror and remove warts, freckles,
tan, superhuous hair and Democratic
votes.
Then he would take out his teeth and |
cleanse them neatly on the linen cover
IF the parlor car chair. He was just
that neat and pernickety that everything
about him must be nice and clean, even