The Press., 1892-01-14

Number 4 1.

through coughing cough that strung out along the track for fifteen miles, and just after the porter had banged himself tired, man in upper No. 6 began to snore. Out of twenty passengers one snored to keep the other nineteen awake. It looked selfish. I waited for awhile, but the nineteen growled around and lot it go at that. Then I got up and went down to No. 6 and reached up fer the mans hair. When he awoke said:
 "See here, sir, you snorei"
 Well, it's my snore, isn't it2" he re- piled.
 1t is, and we don't want any of 1t. This is g sleeping car. We pay extra be- cause we hope to sleep. You have no Tight to deprive us of that privilege"
 "What are you going to do about it?''
 "You either stop snoring or I'll begin singing. If can't sleep you shan't. I've got just as much legal right to sing as you have to snore."
 He growled and clustered around, but he ceased to snore. don't know wheth- Ter he took his nose of or tied 1t up, but his wild bazoo no longer annoyed us.
 Last spring a baggageman threw my trunk off his wagon in front of 8 Phila- defphia hotel and busted it. He drove on singing as stood looking at the wreck. Half an hour later walked in on him at the depot and said:
 "I want $9 of you.''
 "What for ?" -....- "For smashing my trunk in front of the Continental" r'> -F~. ua1
 "You get outl Trunks are liable to be damaged, and whoever heard of any one having to pay for them?" ' ]. I "I'll show you a case right of. You had no more license to bust that trunk than you had to bust my head. You eith- | Ter come down or I'll begin proceedings" i"
 'What will you do E-' ]
 "I'n sue you the first thing to-morrow. I'll not only sue you, but I'll garnishee your wages. I'll make it cost you at least $20 to get out of it, even if you don't have to pay for the trunk" :. He clustered and defied me, but before 10 o'clock he came to the hotel and offer ed me $7 to settle. I took written promise on his part to handle all trunks with reasonable consideration thereafter, and closed the case. He admitted to mo that he had probably damaged 5000 trunks in his life, but that no one had ever kicked before. He didn't suppose a trunk-owner had the slightest legal right on earth, and he didn't got over looking pale for a week. \ The landlord 4of a New Jersey hotel Iwelcomed me with smile and put me ir Ia room where I had no sooner gone tc bed:th was violently assaulted by [ Iaoek of fierce and ungoyernable buga 'I Isdppose 1t was thef way and they conI<ln,I II but 5DGaai ' : tts :Sidilofd snd said:
 sThis bed is infested. I want to be changed to another room ''Sorry, sir, but we are all fuil," he re- piled. =
 "When you assigned me room 1t was tacitly understood that I was. to have wholesome food and be able to enjoy a nights rest. On my part, was to pay at the rate of $2.50 per day, in good and lawful money"
 "Well?" ?"
 "Well, hotel guest has legal rights. He has right to protect his life. Here's a revolver and here's box of cartridges. Either change me to another room, or I'll sit here and fire every one of these bullets into that bed! :" - .... ,..
 He changed me. He growled about kickers and acted put out, but next day all the rooms on that flool were properly inspected, and all travellers for the next three months owed me debt of grati. tude. .~
 Thirty of us, men and women, were dumped out on platform at a railroad junction in Illinois to wait twenty five minutes for the other train. It was cold and rainy. There was no fire in the de. pot stove. There was only one smoky old lamp to see by. The twenty-fiv minutes slipped away, but there was nc train. A quarter of an hour later I rap. ped at the ticket-window. The. depot agent, who was also telegraph operator was in his stall inside, and after long delay he opened the sash. l "Is the train late ?" I asked.
 "If it isn't on timc then its late, isn't |it?" he replied, in surly manner. $. "How late is the train?" s1 1T dunno a
 "Well, find out !'' Il He slammed the sash down on me, but I knocked until he raised it again and de handed in an ugly voice what in Davy Jones I wanted.
 '"I want to know about that train. Its your business to ascertain and post us It makes difference whether we have tc wait here one hour or three"
 "I don't take orders from passengers r he curtly replied, as he lowered the sasf again.
 Three minutes later the six of us whs had revoIvers stood in line and fired volley into his house just above his head Up went the sash, and he asked: "Wh-what is it?"
 Hts about that trainl"
 It's an hour and g half .late!"
 'sOhi it is? What about the fire fl the sitting ?''
 Il 'T dunno" t.ts ,t, "All ready, gentlemen! Take aim tfi-n'
 '"Good heavens! but what do yor mean P" he shouted.
 r.'We want you to build a fire. Eithe I come out or we continue shooting!" Fl He came out and started a fire He al