The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-22

ed me: Good old black mud along the
road In the old countries the soil
ing doctored for some complaint or
other.
Saturday, March 10.
set my watch back for the last time.
I now have the same time as the big
clock in my office at home.
I have enjoyed this day Immensely,
looking out the window and thinking
that at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning,
I will eat breakfast at home
The train is composed entirely of
Pullmans, and the sleepers have no
smoking compartments; smokers go
up to the car in front 1t is the finest
railroad train I have ever seen Time
between New York and Chicago, -
hours The Pennsylvania company
has a train that makes it in Is hours,
but I could not have made any bet
ter connection in Chicago, had ia
ken the fast train.
I tried to write on some of the best
trains abroad, but couldn t. l nave
no difficulty in writing on this tram,
and I wrote on the Santa Fe sleeper
between Atchison and San Francisco
At $40 o. M the suburbs of Chi
/ cago began to appear. Chicago IS IKE
! America: it has reason to Drag, pul
| really for the sake of politeness, It
should restrain itself. For that mat
/ ter every man who lives IN TINS
blessed country has reason to go 70
his front door every morning ana
/ cheer because he is an American. II
Won don't know it, I do; I have just
! invested good deal of time and
money in discovering the fact
have read all my letters and pa
to n
them again. You will never know
/ how much you think of Atchison until
you have not heard from 1t IN four
months.
/ At p. M we reached Chicago,
! but attractive as the city is it did not
| interest me; I was more interested in
! reaching home.
The burlington train did not start
west until 6:10 p. M, 50 I walked
about incidentally getting shave
and enjoyed hearing the barber
talk
/ suppose that had I raced around
! New York a day or two, I could have
secured a pass home, but 1 didn t
/ think of it; I was so anxious to get
! home that I bought a ticket all the
way through without grumbling.
When the gates were open for the
/ Atchison train, I walked through, and
! SAID 10 the EQllLldl COlQuElOIs <AtcAAt-
son. He directed me to the proper
sleeper How good it seemed to use
/ that world The train was hand
some one, with an observation car on
the rear. and the track double; more
| than a thousand miles in the interior
from the sea coast, and here was a
I palatial train going west. And at the
end of its run, other palatial trains
! will be found waiting, bound for San
I Francisco. Ours is big country and
: 7fr~x- ont q aer O rf7
/ mountains and deserts, there are rail-
/ road trains finer than run between
/ Paris and London, or between Lon
don and Liverpool, where the traffic is
enormous.
Sunday, March II.
awoke this morning about day
light, east of Cameron, and found a
pretty stiff snowstorm; the first l
had seen during the winter, except
that I encountered a little snow on
entering France from Italy. 1 called
the porter and he said the train was
on time.
/ again call attention to fact that
is very surprising: I have Travelled
twenty-seven thousand miles on ten
different steamships, and on railroads
in many different countries, yet have
never been delayed or met with an
accident. except the delay at Jaffa, Of
one day which did not prevent my
sailing for Naples as arranged. I met
with no Inconvenience, and no hard
ship, except the Inconvenience and
hardship of travelling first class around
the world. I shall always contend
that travel is a hardship, and not
a pleasure.
After a short delay at st. Joe, the
train pulled out for Atchison and
Home; twenty miles away. I was the
only passenger on the sleeper. The
Pullman porter looked at my valise
with its strange tags-Bom bay. Cey-
lon. Egypt. Palestine, etc.-and said:
For goodness sake boss. where have
you been2" mo matter where I've
been, I replied; Tn more interested
in where III be in q few minutes"
Soon after, the train stopped at Ar
mour Junction. and I followed the
porter out OF the car onto the plat
form. The engineer of the Atchison
train waved his hand at me, and said.
1 Hello. therei" The brakeman, and
the conductor. and the fireman waved
at me, and on the platform I found &
reception committee Globe people
ipeople I'd been longing to see Il was
snowy and blustery, but they had