St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-02-02
OBSERVATIONS
Made on Pullman Enroute to
Colorado.
OK THE ROAD,
Saturday Night

OK THE ROAD,
Saturday Night.
Say, Mac, we are in Wyoming
that state where the wind always
blows, where just now IL SHOWS,
aud where, at the presept writing
TO use one OF my good old Episcopal
expressims-it Is colder than billy
heilel Frost is sticking out of the
telegraph poles in shoe-string shape
like bristlcs on the shoulders of a
razor back. II is SO cold that even
the porter doesnt care to talk.
Speaking Of porters we started
ont of Portland with a tall ON.
He was tall so tall that he had to
knccl down when lac made up the
upper berths. Now we have a new
one. a tat little sawcdoh cuss, so
short that lac has 10 stand OF steps
To arrange the lower berth oh,
well, Il takes all sorts OF coons to
aid the Pullman outfit to grind out
the dividends
We have just passed Upton,
6gg7 feet above sca-levcl--but we
have been hiking down grade all
the afternoon. Before that down
hill start the train was running so
slowly that We would frequently
get of the rear coach, run along
beside the track To get warm, then
jump on the smoker and walk back
To our car II was very beneficial
to the blood-but tough on the
shoes.
There are six babies in my coach
that is, only six up Ia this time
three sets. One set is going 10 ST.
Louisiana, bythcway, the mother
is an odd one.
She il taking the babies To the
father aud she never rode IN al
sleeper before. The rest Of us won
dercd why she sat up so long after the
porter had her lower ready for her
but II was full one o'clock Che
told me the next morning) before
he spoke To her.
She told him she was waiting till
all the folks got 10 sleep 50 she
could undrcssl The poor tired
woman didn know how to do the
double contorlion act behind her
curlain-until the coon explained To
hci, put her IN, and fastened the
shcllering curtains
Another couple is going, with
two tiny babies, clear To South
Carolina-while the third duet Is
going with the father to Nodaway
county, Missouri, The mother OF
these two-togethcr with eleven
others GS IN alD-dicd after IS
years oi welded bliss, so the father
told me, Poor woman! Who
could blame her
This morning a commercial man
came into the ear. lie had a slight
limp and used cane. A little
while later when we made a stop
I'VE heard a beautiful sound from a
Music box. At the next slop-a
longer one We heard two more
airs. and We traced Il 10 the com.
mcrcial man. Soon he went ont To
the washroom and at tlh FIRST stop
after lac came back the music com |
mcnced and three tuns were ratified |
of. Then, while We were all |
crowding about him he pulled up
One lrouscr leg abOuc his knee,
took little key from his pocket,
inserted il in the centre OF the
kuec cap ami wound up the music
box lie had a hollow cork leg
aud "tWas full of music. too
OF all the killing time | have
ever seen this train takes the rag
off the hush-or, To be more careful,
the drapery off the shruhheryl It
seems TO he a difficult job to con
sume os hours over a course where
but 90 hours were needed less than
one year ago. Bu, they manage to
do il, Just the same, possihlp they
think II will appear as ii the ticket
buyer earned hls money more com
plelely,
From the minute We lett l.arimie
the snow disappeared aud but for
the white crowned peaks OF dis :
tant mountains one might have inn {
agined Il WAS charming summer
sunday MAS as perfect day as one
could well desire: gentle balmy
hreeles were everywhere and not ,
an overcoat was needed II was
like AN April day-and the streets
of Denver were alive with a glad
throng in its glad rags
Thorn.