Year: 1869

FLEEING FOR MY LIFE.


The Morning Express, "a M, on the Pittsburg
Chicago and Fort Wayne Railroad, had just LETT
Pittsburg, and was rushing on through the dark
ness of the early morning towards the self.styled
sNew York of the West;' the city notorious fo'
its crime and astness We speak Of Chicago
which may be aptly termed the fungus city.


In one corner of the forward passenger car
which bore on its sides the words second class,
on a seat man lay all huddled up in heap, evi'
dently sleeping.


By the dim light which pervaded but did not il,
Illuminate the passenger COACH We can just distin'
guish the face of the sleeper, although rough
slouch hat, of the style once denominated 'Kos'
suth," was pulled over his brows and halfshaded
the face.


The features ofthe man were small and delicate,
small shapely nose, an exquisitely cut chin and
mouth, fair, white forehead-aud yet there was
something strange looking in the faee-what was
it? Let US examine the features closely and pos
sibly we may discover.


Let us commence with the chin. 1t was a. fail
and smooth as that of baby or young girls
with no trace Of beard; the upper lip, Also
showed no trace of moustache, yet there was a
faint blue line visible, which would seem to indi
cate that the keen edge Of the razor had recently
been there; nothing remarkable yet in the face.
Let US proceed with the search His eyes were
closed, and from the smooth, pinkish tinted lids
strayed long, golden eyelashes; and now when fol
moment, he turned restless on his seat and opened
his eyes for second and then closed them again,
we could see that their color was steel blue, an
eye that was sparkling one, that could melt into
loves tenderness, or, angry, dart daggers of fire.
Now came the strangeness to the face; the eye
brows of the sleeper seemed gone, nothing remain
ed but a faint dark line, as though the hair which
formed the eyebrows had been destroyed by long
sickness. This little circumstance made the face
look odd. The hair of the stranger was OF dark
brown color and cropped tight to the head, and yet
the eyelashes were golden Nature, the careful
and cunning worker, rarely makes such mistake
as this. What then could it mean? But one IN
ference could be drawn, that art in the shape o.
man. had assisted Nature.


On went the train, and still slept the sleeper II





his troubled, uneasy sleep.


There were but few passengers in this the SEQ
oud class coach, for democratic America the re-
public, the practical republic where we have nc
aristocracy, mo bloated lordings" and where al
men are supposed to be alike free and equal, will
not ride in second class car if it can possibly
beg, borrow or steal money enough to pay for the
first" Only the poor German, careful and
thrifty, saving Of his money, the most valuable
and worthy son of all the lord-trodden and priest
ridden nations of the Old World that seek 70,
freedom and home beneath the eagle and the
starry banner; the refuge for the oppressed Of al
the world, or the "Yankee" fanatic and dreamer
who cares not for appearance and travels solely tol
his own convenience and comfort, and heeds moi
what "NIrs Grundy' may say, patronize the socla
position lowering second class"


Why was it, then, that the sleeper we have des
cribed, who bore in his face and appearance, the
stamp s'gentleman' there is such thing as
blood and birth telling, in spiteof our democracy
and who, though dressed roughly-nay, poorly
no rings upon his fingers no jewelry about his per
sop-yet, by his manner and his bearing, proclaim
ed himself to the world one of those lords born o
nature, and by her gifted with the true nobility,
scholar and a gentleman; titles that will flourish
even in republic. Why was it, then, that he
journeyed ''second class.


Ere we can proceed to discover the reason tol
bis Journey thus, as we have discovered wherein
the straugeness of the face lay, the conductor en-
tered the car to examine the tickets Before hin
went man with lantern, as Is usual, to aftorc
him light. The man who bore the lantern, how
ever, was not a negro, as Is commonly the atten
dant of the conductor, but white man, maj
dressed too well for brakeman attending to hi
duties, man with jet black hair cropped tight te
his head, cleanly shaved face, with the blue TIM
on the chin, which denotes that heavy bearc
would have been there had not nature been tam
pered with; man with gray eye, as keen as
hawks and as quick as cat; an eye, restless anc
ever in motion, an eye that not the smallest trlti'
escaped The high cheek -bones and the square
cut chin, and 6rm-set, thiu-ipped mouth, gave
promise of bulldog courage.


The man with the lamp flashed the light full il
the face of the sleeper that we have described
The sleeper awoke with grunt and mutteret
exclamation of German. But the face that tn
light flashed upon was not the face that we hav'
before described. By means of some peculiar con
traction of the mouth, the stranger had changed
the whole expression of the lower part Of his face
and by dropping the eyelids half over the eyes, b
succeeded admirably in giving an expression o
stodity and stupidity to the face which before ha'
seemed the very expression itself of intellectual
beauty.


The stranger now looked like simple German
lad, perhaps nineteen or twenty yeas of age. IN
stared at the conductor and rubbed his eyes witt
his hands, which were small but covered with dir
and small sores, as though he had lately been al
Aicted with that scourge of the world, the small
pox.
he was q nervous man and afraid Of disease


ssYour ticket" he said, roughly.


'.Yaw, mynheer," drawled the stranger slowl
producing the ticket from an old worn-out wallet
which he drew from his pocket. The conducto