The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

the owner OF an e1Ent-uliie railroad De
was a person of considerable local i'm
/ pOrtance in the Pennsylvania German
settlement where he resided.
One morning when Mr. Krupp's brain
was particularly active it occurred 10
him that by sending passes over his
road TO the presidents Of the big rail-
roads Of the country he might receive
complimentary passes IN return. This
4 would enable him to see something Of
the world at comparatively small eE-
pense, and such passes as he could not
use personally he could dispose Of -ad-
Yantageously. Mr.. Krupp lost no time
iE getting letterheads printed with hiss
own name in large type as president.
Then he sent "R. & A" passes broad
cast and awaited results.
One hot afternoon a flushed repre-
sentative Of a big western road walked
into Mr.. Krupp's Office aud said he had
been all over town looking for the II.
& A." railroad ard could not find it. He
said he was sent from Philadelphia 10
investigate before the company issued
d pass over its entire line.
at is chust outside of town-five min
utes' walk" explained Mr.. KFupp suave-
~.
How long is your road?" asked the
railroads representative.
| About eight miles, ] t'ink.
! Thunder You don't expect us to
exchange passes with a road like that,
do yOu?" the representative demanded
angrily. why, we nave 5000 miles OF
road"
Veil" answered Mr.. Krupp, draw
ing himself up with an air Of offended
dignity, maybe my road amt so long
as yours, but it's ohust as vide
LippincOtts.
The agent and operator at the little
station said the train was late-that
was all he knew about it He couldn't
tell when it would be alcng.
In the diminutiye waiting room sat
two men.
One was a commercial traveller, For
more than an hour he had tried TO
amuse himself by reading q newspaper
two or three days old. He had read
everything in it, including the railway
I advertisements market reports, list Of
marriage licenses and court records.
The other was a shabby looking man
with struggling mustaehe and "a tan
/ colOred oyercoat with bulging pockets
and q liberal scattering of grease spots.
He had made several attempts TO be
I chummy, but his ovartures had failed
10 awaken any responsive enthusiasm.
/ The commercial traveller yawned, laid
the paper down. went out, and walked
up and down the platform for ten or
fifteen minutes,
Then he came back ard sat down
again.
amt it?H ventured the other man.
| "Uh-huh."
Trouble about these deepo agents is
I that they don't care when the train
comes. They wouldn't turn their hands
over to find out. They'd just as lief
Teller would stay here all day as not
| 'Uh-huh."
''If that chap in there had any ac-
commodation about him he could find
out in two minutes all about that train,
| and if it's not going to be here for an
hour or so a feller could go out and get
| something to eat,
"Uh-huh."
There's an eatin' house about a
! quarter of a mile from here where
Teller can get a pretty good meal Tor
! quarter
s.It's a dog-gone shame we've got 70
! wait here all this time. when the train
may not come along for two or three
hours. amt it?"
4 e say it's a dog-gone shame we've
got to"
'Uh-huh.''
There was a silence Of several min
uteg, and then the man with the grease
spotted overcoat tried again.
"Ain't very sociabIe like, are ye:
Maybe you're too big a man to
speak 10 common folks.
I cay, maybe your too big man
'Uh-huh'
You needn't think you're the whole
/ cheese. There's other people in the
! world besides you. Ever hear OF
man that travels up and down this
road a good deal and rides free halt
the time, because the conductors all
know hin-man they call 'Dlrty Shlft
Huddleston. p
Yes, I've heard Of aim
well, that's me
J With a ac0rnful glance at the COM
mercial traveller IL arose, staiked from
the waiting room, and walked back and
forth on the station platform with the
majestic manner of superior being
who had been compelled, by the inso-
lence OF grounding, 10 assert him.
SELF,
( (CnicaEO TribuHe.)
The late Or. Emily ?. Robbins used
to tell a story of a hypochondriac ana
his cure.
cat Fort Madison, where I first prac-
1
| ondriac Of great wealth, whom a friend
of mine. a DR.. Gray, attended
Some days this hypochondriae would
think himself tea pot. Again he
would be a kettle. or his legs would
be turning into glass. He was, alto
gether, a trying subject TO deal with.
Finally the limit was reached, Tor wnen
the doctor asked him how he felt he
said, grufIiy:
How do I feel? Why, I don't feel at
all I'm dead. I've been dead several
hours. How can dead man feel
DIR. Gray determined TO humor him.
He said:
Yes. YOU are dead. sure enough
Come UP stairs and be laid out, Wen
send for the undertaken
The patient consented, though with
| a rather uneasy look, and got into bed,
| stretching himself out in stiff, corpse
like attitude.
They dressed him in grave clothes,
put him in a coffin, placed flowers in
the room, and then admitted, two or
three at time. his old friencls-
These having been posted, gazed at
the corpse. and shook their heads
sadly
All one would say, 80 he's dead
at last. Ell? Wei, greater villain new
er lived