The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22
BY RAIL IN NoRsELAND.

al European pattern and are light ant
 comfortable. They are furnished witt
 toilet-roomstand run smoothly and noise lessly. Most of the trains are equip ped with Westinghouse brakes, steam
 heat and electric lights. They run very 1 slowly. Economy is studied in this re- l spect, as in every other. There is Q 1 certain speed-say fifteen or eighteen l miles an hour-which can be main
 fuel, and the Scandinavian railway managers have figured it down to a dot. They can haul a longer train a | greater distance with a ton of coal
 than any other engineers, and the most scrupulous attention is applied to every
 feature of management, the tracks, the
 rolling stock, the station. the crossings
 The crossings s-keepers are usually wo-
 men, large number of that sex are
 employed by the railways. In Germany
 you find them on the dining cars.
 The waits at the stations seem un-
 
 but the time is utilized by the leisuraly | passengers in drinking big goblets of
 beer and by the conductor in parading
 up and down the platform so that the patrons of the road can have an oppor- | tunity to admire his radiant uniform and fine shape In Scandinavian coun- tries the best looking men seem to have | been selected for railway conductors and policemen and their department is decidedly different from what we are accustomed to. If you ask question of a Norwegian policeman he will bring his heels together, give a military sa- lute and stand in the attitude of atten- ton like a solder while he answers. He usually understands English too, Those who cannot are remarkably accurate guessers and all take a friendly interest in your inquires in- stead of giving you short answer and a cold shoulder, like the police man at home. They will walk to the corner to point out the house in the middle of the next block if that is where you want to go, and when you thank them for their attention you get another salute that makes you feel as big as major general, or as if you had been mistaken for a member of the royal family. Railway conductors are equally polite and seem to understand that 1t is a part of their business to protect tenderfooted travellers, as an- gels always look after good little boys.
 It is a long, tedious trip from Copen- hagen to Christiania by rail- but 1t is worse by water. The Skager Rack is as bad as the Bay of Biscay or the English Channel. Two tides meet there, one from the North Sea and the other from the Baltic, and enterinto heartless con- spiracy to make travellers miserable. The boats are clean and comfortable, but small, and white and have triplcate- e-ellipitical- corkscrew motion that will make the toughest old sea dog bury his face in pillow and wish that he had never been born. The con- sumption of food upon the vessels is less in proportion to their patronage than on any other line except those that cross the English Channel. When a steamer has forty passengers the cook never provides for more than four, for that is the usual ratio of crocodiles- and, of course, full board Is charged against the rest. That is the habit of European steamers. When a voyage is rough and people are sure to be sea sick, you pay for the regular number of meals in advance when you buy your tickets and never eat them. If you are to have smooth passage and fierce appetite you are served la carte and everything Is charged extra.
 Through sleeping cars run between Copenhagen and Christiania. They are divided into coops according to the ordinary European plan, some narrow with two berths upper and lower, and some with hunks for four. First-class passengers pay kroner for a bed, which Is $1.40, and second-classers 84 cents, but I was not able to distin- guish any difference between the &C., commodations, except that the S4-cent berths were upholstered in plain scarlet plush, and the $1.40 seats were finished in pattern like Persian rug but if I Norwegian accurately, they never at anybody in the upi CT berth over a f1rst-classer, while the second- class compartments are packed full, according to the demand. At least that is what I gathered from an anil mated conversation with porter who could not talk English and did not ap- pear to get very firm grasp on my 
 There is universal language, how ever, which can be used in all coun- tries. It is sometimes paper and some times coin; and, if you speak 1t fluent ly, you need have no anxiety or trou- ble. Give a railway conductor or DOT ter to understand in that language that you want to be safe and comfortable then retire to your compartment and take your ease. He will do the rest He was fumbling among the traps that had been placed in the tracks above my bed.
 "What do you want? What are you looking for D I exclaimed.
 Customs officer" he replied laconi- cally, in good English.
 You have no right to come into a mans room like burglar even if you are a customs oflicer." I said.
 English D he asked, without taking 1 any notice of my indignation.
 "No American"
 Anything dutiable?"
 'No" |
 'Spirits?'
 'No don't drink"
 "Cigars?'
 "No Smoked 'em all last night"
 He then took piece of chalk out of | his pocket and marked each bag with |