The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-01-25

Emo nous fricca Given or livery
thing lie Has TO sell.
The Old query as to whether or not
you would ike to be the lceman will
be rapidly forgotten as soon as song
writer's and balladists learn about the
train boy la Alaska There Is a train
boy In Alaska. Just one. or rather
there was few weeks ago, but by this
time he may be somewhere In the Med
iterranean ON his private yacht blowing
rings from his 5O-cent cigars, and
swearing at his S5.OOO-a-year sailing
master because he cannot whistle up
breeze
Think of being The only train boy on
railroad that brings miners with
thousands Of dollars worth Of gold out
Of the greatest mining camp in the
world There is ouiy one railroad TO
Alaska that Is the White Pass and
Yukon Railroad. On that railroad there
Is a tsain called the kl0ndike Limited
The Kloudike Limited! Isn't the
sound of that name enough to make
NNAAAhNA NhAANfN NAANANA vi Aht run nt-
tween Peoria and Lafayette, Ind, stick
his head into his basket Of saltod pea
nuts and strange himself to death? For
there is tranhoy on the IIlondike
Limited ON the Klondike Limited,
that brings prospectors and miners and
adventurers weighted down with gold
en- nuggets back to the States elvillza-
ton, and the girls they left behind
them, there is a candy butcher. And
all these prOspectOrs and miners and
Adventures on this Klondke Limited
are bubbling over with joy that the
days OF their exile are over, and that
soon they will be back to their boyhood
homes again. Think OF turning loose a
candy butcher In such a crowd as that.
TO quote another popular song, 1T
seems Ike a shame TO take the
money"
The traiuboy on the Klondlke Limit
ed like his brothers on the Kenosha To-
cal, deals IN peanuts. candy, books, pa
pers, and magazines. But more than
that, he sells shirts and collars and
bright red necktles. He also has a full
line OF plug tobacco and cigars of the
finest cabbage selected leaf The train
boy does not like to sell cigars He only
gets 80 cents apiece for them, aud they
cost him 70 cents a hundred. He sells
the cigars to show he's a good fellow
He didn't originally deal in shirts and
habcrdashery, but he found that the
miners returning to civilization yearn
mRdly for "bilod" shirt SO after he
had sold the shirt of his back, together
with his collar and red necktie for 500
he decided to carry stock of shirts
and ties
There are stringent restrictions in
Alaska in regard to selling whisky, and
80 the trainboy doesn't sell 1t. He gives
Il away, aud let's the man tip him for
his trouble In pulling the cork. II the
man were to give him a nugget any
smaller than the size of the cork the
tralnboy would haughtily refuse to let
him buy any more cigars. and would
charge him at least 50 for a two
months Old newspaper, which he ordi-
narily gives away for only S1.5O.
Then the trainboy sells playing cards,
and the passengers are always wanting
a game. He puts up the table. too,
hands around the matches, aud. of
course, a large and substantial kitty"
Is maintained on one side Of the table
for the sole support Of the obliging
tralnhoy IL anybody was to put
quarter or a silver half dollar into the
kitty" the trainboy wouldn't be angry
lie uses those things to pay storekeep-
ers for fresh goods for his next run.
A Seattle newspaper man interviewed
the tranboy on the last trip from Alas
ka. Quoth the tralnboy: Am | III
Am 2 Say, amt l naughty boy2
know les wrong to take the money. but
need It in my business. and besides,
as soon as l get enough I'll buy the
railroad and give some other good de-
serving hoy chance TO fasten on to a
little honest money But 81 for sack
OF peanuts. Say. that's a penitentlary
offense In Illinois. but need the mon
ey."-Chicngo Tribune.