The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-22


you. Tonight l will guard against
this much talked of sleep. 1 will stay
up all night"
EVILS OF EARLY TRAINING.
l got up at 2:3O a. m. Yesterday and
thought of his remark. If anything
can be more injurious than sleep I
think it is early rising. Early rising
and an lily lighted this word I got at
a fall opening in Chicago an lily
lighted stairway threw me at Benton
Harbor and injured my ankle so that I
could not get to the depot without as
sistance. At that hour it was impossi-
BILE to get a carriage, for the city was
yet young, like the new born day itself.
The clerk tried to rouse every or any
livery stable in town. but he could not,
Meantime 1 lay moaning in the arms
Of an attendant. My breath came in
quick, but yet invisibly checked pants.
The train would be due in eight min
utes. What to do? Anon l heard a
dull thud as the clerk broke in the
door of a blacksmith shop and pulled
out a piano box buggy valued at
$3.50.
Hastily placing me in this this, with
the aid of my attendant and valet, he
started on a run for the station, neigh
ing jOyously as he met a team that he
recognized. In a trice, or possibly a
trice and a half, we were there. l was
taken out and placed in a berth, where
I moaned the balance of the night
away; but I cannot be two grateful to
tho clerk of the hotel at Benton HarbOr,
where this melancholy accident &C
Cured, for he showed tact, ability and
kindness. to say nothing of the fact
that I found him to be thoroughly
gentle and a good roadster.
As he left us I wrang his hand two
times for ice water) and, turning away
my head 50 that he could not see my
tears, l presented him with my auto
graph. When I get home l am going
to send him a nice new red fly net for
next summer.
THE RAILWAYS DELAYS,
The flight from Benton Harbor was
not much like our triumphant entry in
the evening, All the previous day We
| had battled against disaster and delay.
As We left Manistee the engine broke
down 50 that we could only use one
side of it Rapidly we lost time. Once
we lost over three quarters of an hour
in less then twenty minutes. This
meant that we would fail to connect at
Grand Rapids, and so miss Benton
lecture to a man for whom we had a
good deal Of respect. Every time we
stopped we had to look out or we
would be on the dead point" of the
engine, and then it would take half an
hour with a pinch bar and some pro
family to start again.
Finally we got desperate. told the
conductor how we were situated and
asked him If he could hold the Grand
Rapids train. He seemed to fear he
could not, as we were already three
hours late and rapidly falling further
into the early fall. However, he said
that all would be we'll.
It is very trying to sit and suffer
that way, knowing that there has been
an advance sale Of So, with the chances
of a door sale running it up to $11 or
81. SO, and that bitter disappointment
is likely to fall upon people who have
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pie, too.
When we got to Grand Rapids an
order was there from superintendent
| Conley to provide US with a special
engine, baggage a and coach, and in
fifteen minutes we were travelling at q
| high rate of speed toward our desti
nation.
Dear reader, did you ever travel by
means Of your WI special train9 If
not you do not know what real, keen
enjoyment and vanity is (or are,
rather. We could put our feet Oh
the seats, smoke, gamble till after
bedtime, talk loud, drink cut of all
the ice water tanks at once, wipe our
faces on two clean towels at a time,
and just give ourselves up to a de-
liciOus sense of lawlessness that made
me feel young again.
THE JOYS OF A PASS
| can still remember how I felt the
first time 1 rode On a pass. 1 did not
need the trip, and lost two days at
the office to do it, but I could not be
comfortable with the beautiful pass in