Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-07-26
NOT AS ANTICIPATED.

IT am conscious" said q well-known
Washington clubman, who returned from
q European trip a short time ago, "that I
didn't diagnose certain conditions properly
when I went across the water to England
last summer. I didn't get on right as the
racing men say.
II ven to the New York Office of the
steamship company to book my passage at
the time when the rush of Americans to-
ward Paris to visit the exposition was at
its height. l was told that the ships were
SO crowded with passengers that I'd have
to be put in q stateroom with two other
men. 1 protested that my privacy was
1earer to me than life, and that I'd willing
ly give up double fare rather than be showed
into the same cabin with anybody whomso-
ever. The agent told me that he positively
couldn't give me a separate room for love
or money.
.eBut,, said 1 to the agent, Pm an old
voyager and have been across a lot of
times, and I never get seasick any more.
Now, suppose those two fellows that you're
going to throw ne in with are both lub-
bers, and both of 'em get sick at the same
time, what sort of fun dye suppose I'll have
on my trip across?'
WELL he said, 1ife's one great big
chance at best, and it's a condition and not
a theory that confrontsy YOU
The agent looked over his passenger list
carefully to find two Of the right kind of
people to herd me with. I noticed that
there was a sort of grin on his face when
! his pencil finally arrived at a couple of
+ names assigned to a certain cabin, but I
didn't think any of that. He put me in
with those two names, and l went aboard
the ship full of gloomy forebodings as to
the seafaring capacities of my two cabin
mates.
"Well, when I met 'em, they didn't i'm
press me at all as men capable OF standing
{ the deep-sea gaf very well. They were
both big, stout Englishmen of middle age,
and I reflected dismally that big, stout
men are much more susceptible to NAL de
mer than small, stingily built chaps. They
were bronzed, out-of-doors looking fellows,
though, and I. put them down at once as
drovers or wholesale meat dealers OF
something like that.
"'Get sick as a general thing?' I asked
them with a would-be amiable grin, look
\ ing from one to the other.
'They looked sort O. sheepishly at each
other and fddled with their hands a bit be-
fore replying.
"'Well,' said one Of them, after a pause,
we maven I lone mucl CTaVellnR on Stedm-
ships, and so we can't tell you that
"tOh, I guess you'll be all right said I,
Y patronizingly. All you've got to do is to
; set your mind against being sick at sea,
you know, and you won't get sick, that's
ALL
"'If you gentlemen, either of you, feel,
when we hit the swell, that you're going to
get sick, why, just let me know, and I'll
see if | can't help you OUT"
"Well, the three of us were still busying
> ourselves in our cabin when the steamer
got down to the Hook. When she passed
out into the open sea I felt the swell right
way, and I looked at my two cabin mates.
They, in their turn, were looking at me.
"'You look a bit white, don't you, old
chap said one of them to me, solicitously,
Iand he was right. I looked white and 1 felt
white. What's more, I felt sick-seasick
There was no use in my trying to disguise
it, but I did.
"'Oh, a bit of Indigestion I said, with
an assumption Of carelessness, to my pair
of mates. It'll wear off when I get my sea,
legs
- -"But it didn't. TIL ship ran smack into
r heavy weather after getting outside the
Hook, and then, for the first time in two
decades, l felt myself getting just deadly
seasick and nothing else.
my two room mates were very kind tc
me, but l didn't want kindness. 1 wanted
eternal peace. Moreover, I was sore OF
them because they didn't become sick
Z Neither Of them showed the first sign o
seasickness. Neither of 'em missed a meal
They'd come poking into the stateroom
after each meal, picking their teeth and
patting their stomachs tenderly, as illus
t~rating how much they'd enjoyed them
-1a ~ k>I14 o-L Ah1y rpoy1l' o,1r ~ ~
other how the pancakes, or the sausage, o.
I the steak, or what-not, had been rel
y ished.
"'Why,' I yelled at them in my misery
don't you two lubbers get sick?' but the!
onlyS guffawed and asked me what the!
could do to make my lot a bit easier.
CATER three days I crawled on deck
more dead than alive, and my two cabil
y mates certainly were decent in helping M
around and handing me things. They sa
and talked with me as I was swaddled VI
on deck, and I noticed that they exchanged
in a quiet sort of way, a lot of nautica
talk with each other. That puzzled me.
couldn't conceive of their picking up s.
much of the lingo in the course of the tire
a days we'd been to sea.
4tSee here I said to them, 4 though
you fellows told me you hadn't done muc
riding on steamships?
"'Neither have we,' replied one of then
laughing heartily, as he looked at hi
friend.
"And then it cam out.
"They we're both British shippers Q
, world-touring sailing ships, and both Q
'em had been to sea since their twelft
year. They had left their ships in dry-doc
for repairs in Erie basin, and they wer
running across the pond in the meanwhile
to see their folks. They told me all of thi
as mildly as they could, so as not to max
T-me feel too cheap over the patronizing al
I had assumed when talking to them abou
seasickness, but I couldn't see it that way
and 1 dashed myself openly before them an
did my little penance by doing the buyin
for the remainder of the voyage. I haven
been patronizing to even a yellow dog sine
- that Observation-Disclosures Star.
Too Much Money. s
They were discussing in one of the con
mittee-rooms at Washington the railwa
postal cars, which cost 5000 each to bull