Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-04-29
DISCOMPORTS OF TRAVEL.

tlNNNA AtlNsl AtNN iANNA>s RAt N1li
now understand why | am so
highly educated and so refined.
know of nothing which 50 en-
hanccS the pleasure of a railroad
trip u a pass. 1t smootheS out all
the aSperities and fatigues of the
journey. 1T maketh glad the
wilderness, and the solitary places,
and maleth the desert TO rejoice
and blossom as rose" ! have
often risen up and left d comfort
able fireSide. kind friends and So
fictitious creditors, and journeyed
to remote and cheerlcss localities
in which was quite unintcrcStcd.
lurcd thereto 10y the magic infiu-
ence of a pass. You all know how
Svengali hypnotizcd poor Trilby.
simply 10y "A few passes.
The immortal poet Longfellow
was way of when he wrote:
Try not the pass" The old man said
Dark lowers the tempest overhead.
The roaring torrent is deep and wide
And loud the clarion voice replied
Excelsior"
Now the old man probably adj
viScd the youth not to try the pass,
because he knew if he did and got
one. he would never be asked to
pay fare again without feeling that
an outrage was being perpetrated
on him. The opium habit Is pos
tive virtue compared with the pass
habit. The fact that one Is in no
way entitled TO free transportation
only stimulates one in the desire to
ride at some other fellow : expense.
One of the most dangerous laws
we have Is the one forbidding of
fice-holders TO accept passes. 1t
keeps our leading citizens ont of
politics. Some one said lin a
moment of temporary alteration
of mind) that he'd rather be right
than President: but I'd rather
have an annual on the New York
Central than be an ASsemblyman in
the tents of wickedness. Chat
another Biblical quotation.)
Some folks sleep in sleeping-cars
any one who has ears can swear
to that-but l am not so gifted.
attribute this mainly to the blankets
(so-called . Bret Harte says a
sleeping-car blanket Is of the size
and consistency of a cold buck
wheat cake and sits equally well
upon YOU. Certainly they are
composed of some weird, uncanny
substance hot in summer. cold in
winter, and maddening in spring
and fall. For a man three feet six
they are of ample proportions; for
a man six feet three they leave
much to be desired, and the tai
man Is kept in suspense as tC
whether he had best pull up the
blanket and freeze his feet or pull
it down and and die of pneumonia
And then the JOY of getting
lyour clothes on in tn,
morning, especially in an upper
berth. To balance yourself OF
the back of your neck and Will,
in this constrained attitude to ad
just ones pants, without spillins
out ones change or offending tn,
lady in the adjoining section, re
quires the gymnastic ability of n,
mean order. You are at liberty t,
vary this exercise, however, by ~
ing on your stomach on the bottom
of the car, and cropping under tn
berth for your shoes. which tn
E African potenate has, in the stil
watch of the night, smeared wit
backing and artfulIy concealed
But what a change comes o'e
the dusky despot as YOU approac
=. your destination. That frow
before which you have learnd t
o tremble is replaced by smile G
childlike blandness. His sOlicita
ton regarding your comfort durin
the last ten minutes of the iOurne
E Is really touching. And when. q
last, he draws his deadly whisL
. broom upon you. all your resen
. ment disappears and you freel
= bestow upon him the money whic
= YOU have been saving up to civ
your oldest daughter music lie.
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