Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24

will you, across the way: the young man
there-Ah! yes-this is my private secre-
tary-was all round the world with me"
And l would have to look out and
laugh pleaSedly, and say: Hello, boys!
Yes, had great time; yes, OF course, had
10 keep moving all The time, and didn't
see as much as II we had gone slower; a
little over the limit, know, but made it
as fast as 1t can be made, guess-Oh yes,
OF course, rather glad to get home again
no place like 1t after all-you've heard Of
that No, saw no place would rather
live than old Puget Sound. What place
IS this, did you say? Your card? Thanks.
Oh yes, that's great paper"
Then | would lean over and haul out
the old satchel from under the bed, open
IL and distribute around some printed in
terviews which we had had prepared for
the purpose. Then there would be some
more shuiiling and jamming around in
the aisle, some last words, and rush to
get Off the train.
As | dropped the curtain, the lights of
the station wOnld move by, and then
those OF the restaurant and saloon on the
other side the street. A man at the end
OF the platform throws flying jest at the
brakeman, and then the blackness of the
night, and the prairie, and the asylum
resuming its conversation: "Here-we
go-again, here-we- go again, hcre-we- 60
again, siXtY-seven- days, sixty seven
days'-until the next station, or until
(when Just in the fuiineSs Of a nope that
| might get into real Sleep Ii would be
broken by a black demon inside, yelling:
Breakfast Is now ready in the dining
car!'
We were at breakfast on the very sum-
nit OF the Rockies-aRd the car stopped
just opposite the brOwn-stone monument
TO Cakes Ames, in honor of his part in the
building Of the Union Pacific railroad, and
looking at IT, Train exclaimed: 1T should
have been built to me-"
At Granger an excursion party of news
paper men, accompanied by wives and
sweethearts, boarded the train in almost
sufficient number to fill a car. They had
come up all the way from Salt Lake City,
and rode with us as far as Caldwell, Idaho.
From Granger, Train had sent telegram
forward TO Tacoma, saying: Provide a
special train at Portland; don't let me lie
five hours in a town that has been calling
me names for twenty years"
We would arrive, ii on time, at Portland
at O'Clock on the morning of the twenty
fourth. No word had been received of
any kind from Tacoma, except here an
invitation by wire to accept a box in the
theatre the night Of arrival. Accept a
box in the theatre? Advertise somebody
else's show? l thought | was to be the
attraction that night?' No special train,
no word, invited 70 lecome mere side
show! What did it all mean? He quit
talking at intervals, now, and looked out
Of the window in these intervals with that
calm that Expresses, in its fOreboding.
When man at Pocatello refused TO take
a copy Of the Sun offered him, free as air,
containing his CTrain's) picture and the
story, he ordered the young men TO give
no more away to anybody, not even for
money, and yelled at the man, as the train
ran away from the station, that he would
meet him some day at kliuchewskaia.
| Have they cannibals at Kliuchewskaia?
/ AT any rate that was the only thought to
which could trace a connection.
Crossing the Oregon line, in a spirit of
! liberality and hospitality that had mark
ed him everywhere, but which now wore
a tinge of that recklessness which is born
| of bitterness, he invited not only his party
of journalists and railroad men, but al
| most the entire trains crew, to feast with
| him in the dining car. He paid the bill
as the train stopped at Huntington, and,
as was his his custom, got out to circulate
among and talk to the crowd. We had
scarcely gotten under way when he dis
| covered that his pocketbOOk was gone.
| IL contained thirty United States dollars,
| a nifty pound note OF the bank Of British
| Columbia with which he expected to pay
| for the special from POrtland), his rail-
way ticket aud some valuable papers.
| The most careful search failed to ind IL.
1t left him with but two dollars of money.
| This he gave the porter, to whom the
! trip had given great amount of extra
work, and TO whom, he said regretfnlly,
he Intended TO give five. The old dar-