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Show ACROSS THE PLAIN'S. Jottings by the Way. "Iago" on & ''Home Ran." Ho for the west ! Years apo, ere the continent was girdled with its iron belt, or the lightning flew upon its wiry track acrois the plains Irom ocean to ocean when Sutler's mill loomed above aud overshadowed Plymouth rock the east floated lolhe we.t on ox teams and Halliday'a &Ue line, and the gold-lhirely stream ot emigration poured to the California!. Eldorado to "make or break" the burning hopes that charged theboeom of a hemisphere that call meant something far different than now. It spoke of trials and tribulations, of arid plains and sandy deserts, of weary months of bIow travel, thousands thou-sands of miles from anywhere, and of sick and dying man and beast, ere the ultimate realization of the ambition which spurred the bardy pioneers to undertake tbe stupendous task necessary neces-sary to its succeEalul accomplishment. But now it meant the puff and speed of tbe locomotive giant four times twenty-four hours of napping and waking, and the return of the piljrim (rom the Mecca of his eastern wanderings wander-ings to his home and friends in the Rocky Mountains. Llorae and friends treasures, indeed, far brighter and more clear than all the auriferous boulders of a Mexico or the blazing crowns and jewels of a world. "All aboard!" A rush a scramble scram-ble for seats a piercing Bhriek from the iron monster ahead, and awny we wbirlonourweetward destiny. "Don't sit down on that hat," yells an excited ex-cited dandy of the cauliflower school, who has taken possession of onu whole seat in person, and another with the article refened to in a pasteboard paste-board box nearly as fragile as him-delf. him-delf. "Excuse me, sir," falters the young girl, "I did not see it and all the rest of the seats are taken." "Jumping Moses! keep your eyes open then," ejaculated Swifty. Just theu up comes a stout, dignified old .jeiilleman who has been watching the whole proceedings over his gold bowed spectacles with much interest from the beginning. "My child," aaya he kindly to the girl, "go and take my seat," and as bob euscoosea herself with a sigh ol relief in the friendly seat thus vacated, her champion cham-pion cooly takes up the bandbox, places it carefully iu the lap of its astonished owuer, and pulling u newspaper from his pocket, is soon lost in the columns of the market reports of the preceding day. A railroad cur is a good place to dludy human nature, it iB Baid, and ao it is, especially one side of human nature the pig Bide. For anyone who has watched a greedy porker im-iiibing im-iiibing his fluid alinieKt from tbe trough where several of hia fraternal poruues are engaged in Bimilar diver diou aud noticed with what particular care his swine ship introduces his dirty feet into the residueol the liqui l lie is unable to swallow himself, can not but be imposed with the analogy there displayed to that of some people , when riding on the railroad cars. 1 "But you got your seat all right you have no cause to grumble;" so Mr, Look-out lor-numbtT-one mifcht inti mate, as though 'twere nev r proper to condemn error but when cur selfish intere&ts are assailed by it. There are too many narrow-heads in this word " Philosophers 1 ' From Elyria to Chicago am eight h( ur's ride in a night of wind and rain tbe train was crowded with emigrants for Kansas, availing them-jeWes them-jeWes of the opportunities now atlordtd by a serios of cheap excursions excur-sions from tho lake shore to the Borderland, to seek new homes and farms in the generous west, "where a man is a man if he's willing to," dec, uid what with Teutonic jargon (moatly Germans) and too tonic ba-oies ba-oies (regular leatherlungs) all ideas ol somuolent indulgence were, of course, vagvirifs too wild and transparent to '. tie entertained by any but the most sanguine aud vitionary. Added to 'his grief, I had been so unusually lurtumite as to get pose osa ion o the eHt next to the stove a red hot one the wily one remaining, and as my outer clothing rapidly submerged it-jclf in the respiration that oozed roiu every pore, aud my body asi--.umrd the color of a newly made onck. I lost all desire for that soru-oilcrum soru-oilcrum article which kuits up tho ravelled sleeve of caro, and lying 'jack upon my eccentric couch I said awnke all night listening to the "children's voices, oh how sweet'' and composing an CFsay on hell, its probable locality, and how to avoid it; for as to its existence I now fell lully qualified to hear a warm testi-nony testi-nony with the air of one having authority. Wl.e.i I awoke next morning got up, I mean tho sun was shining bc.iutifully, and a few minutes later we rolled into the depot of the "tuecn of tho North and the West." Bu.y as ever, if not more eo, Chicago stifl predict for herself a career of future arid (substantial greatness, besides which her present beauty and grandeur are simple bagatelles. She oas already shown her indomitable energy by a trial which none but great ('ities ever aumvn, and the Phoenixlike Phoenix-like example by which ber holocaust aow blooms like an Eden of financial finan-cial glory, is one th.it "peaks for her in tones whose meaning is neither uncertain nor equivocal. Twenty four hours more, and we are at Council Bluffs. Here wc pay JOc. for the privilege of risking our Uvea on tbe transit of the Mis touri, over a bridge whom stability is nearly as precarious as a lady's bonnet in a wind storm or the fortune of Charily Hemingray A, Co. in Ibe national capital. As luck would have it, on board our train were Mies Mary Anderson and Iroupe, billed for an engagement at ihe Nebraskian Metropolis. This " rising young heiress to tho honors of Charlotte Cishman" is a tall, ele gantly fjrmed, biue eyed blonde, with features exquisitely cniselled, nearly as Tell painted, and the voice and manner whatever her artistic deporl ment on tho boards cf a theatre lliuctrating all the characteristics of a fclf spoil-d school girl. But I refrain. My opinion i premature, since, a ; t.t lure said, a rail-road cr exhibits but ni.o phase ol human character nd that one of the most und. uterine kind. As we left cloudy O.naha, winch ;:h an in?piri: g K-nacty tli:l su PUi:- -.tri mil t-iir:;'-i! regulation '-,r h e lii.t tiiiid rn tl.e cnnlinpr.t, nt.il : .-.-il up tin: v.! py of tne Pl.Ute inr ,(! Nt-r o;lrd nl crilce became 1l a cup. Toil ra'iicl innova- t oa to our eastern p.isiengere whose dollars are western dimes vxt a tcpic ol eODJB comment; the sleek, oily-baired ntlemau with a stovepipe stove-pipe hat and one eye, who eat opposite, oppo-site, being seriously affected by it. Ever and auon muttering to the cor pulent iniividu.il next to him some sarcastic i-p gram ou the oppoaiLc actions of the inermcmeltr, and lue scale of prices, wondering if the maskei value ot edibles and ainiulanu increased in-creased wiiii the altitude ol civiiiz.itiou, and cuicuUtiug the adequacy of hi? tinacces to the reaching o! the Pacific coast under this starihug and unprecedented unpre-cedented run on bis money ba;8. At Sidney he paid his dollar tor brt'akla;t in silent indignation, but when be found that wlr.sky was i'S a gallon and the innocent eon of Ham whom he interviewed issued an invitation for.75 cents for going across the tquare after it, he hopped around the platform like an ignited firecracker, curing the U. P., C. P., Chinee, all other ecs, and everyone in general, while his solitary optic flashed a .d blazed like a meteor from underneath hia raven plumes, e'en as a sputtering lucifer match reflected from the glassy bosom of a sea of Goddard's ink. Diuuer at Cheyenne, Sunday, the 31st ult. "Tue wickedest town in America" was all stir and bustle, bu'. the train wait did not allow me to investigate a la Eli PerkinB, whose excellent description waB doubtless entirely correct. Furthermore, one, in order to give a trutbtuL report of things, must generally experience them personally, and and "oxcoos me, if you plea?," Amcoe the pleasant acquaintances formed while on the way, waB Mr. J. D, Case of Columbia, Pa., a younger brother to Colonel Case, the enterprising enter-prising geutlemnn who purchased the Ogdeu iron works last winter, en route lor Ogdrn to take charge of the property until the company is fu:ly organized, over which he will be placed as superintendent. Mr. Case is a genial gentleman, of engaging manner and address, and we bespeak tor the cood people of the Junction city many pleasant associations with their new acquaintance, aud join with them in bidding welcome and wishing him success during bis sojourn so-journ among them; As wo passed the summit of the divide the air became quite raw. Oa tbe descent, we whirled through a nuow storm, the moet beautiful phenomena phe-nomena witnessed thus far, and leaving it behind, night once more closed down upon us. April 1. A beautiful day. The tourist who has spent bis whole life among the low lands'of Ihe states is invariably struck with wonder and admiration at the ruaguificence of Utah's Bceoeiy. So with those ou board tbo U. P. train that day. Hardly could they be induced to leave the platforms. All down the Echo and the Weber were heard the enthusiastic en-thusiastic ejaculations of our stranger passengers over the beauties of nature. that lay above, around and beneath us, and all agreed that no matter what people or religion existed among Ihese mountains, their lasted for beauty and grandeur of surroundings were evidenced by the delightful lo-cn.ily lo-cn.ily of their homes. Ho thioks "lugo," who, now at home oi:ce more, has learned to appreciate it as it truly deserves, with sentiments of prsfjuud respect for his lriendu throughuut the length aud breadth ol our f.iir native territory, begs leave to make his closing bow to the kind and g( nerous public wbieh has bo long tolerated him as its bumble and obedient obe-dient servant. Iago. |
