| Show NOTES BY THE WAY on a trip to the pacific coast PULLMAN HUMBOLDT hubbold aug 1115 P pm M 1888 editor deseret news it is not often that a passenger er gets the privilege of more than one berth on an a passage west but your correspondent fras layered favored with three my arst was a lower on the midnight flyer ayer engaged by a friend but concluding to take the 8 passenger I 1 presented myself at the pullman office and requested a change WO no lowers on this train said the somewhat crusty clerk with a peculiar look in his left eye after importuning on the ground round of sickness as if I 1 was pleading for an alcoholic refreshment in kansas and found that it was impossible to change toe the mind of the gentleman in charge I 1 said well ill take the upper but I 1 dont want diady a lady in the lower one he kindly consented to give me a gentleman and with check in hand and a NEWS in my pocket entered the santa clara and enjoyed an hours reading pretty soon after that a gentleman with a semi trunk appendage came and with eyeglasses eye glasses began scrutinizing the numbers on the sections at rast last he says 1 ill I think this is ours 0 13 raila 1 to I suppose it is said 1 I thinking in g him to be my nether co parter well it was oat but I 1 soon found folind out that the clerk had not only furnished rne me with a gentleman as promised but a lady as wellfort well tor for in she followed accompanied by 1442 parcels consisting of valises vali ses satchels sat ebels lunch baskets bags bundles and babies I 1 at once put on my most fascinating cina CIDA ting ami smile leof of self sacrifice and volunteered in view of the lack of room to take another section and happily surrendered my seat to the happy pair and their multitudinous parcels the porter whom my sagacity had bad prompted me to fix with a silver token said ned held fix me all right right but I 1 happened to know a w white ite friend who came to see me off the same that had bad secured my midnight berth and he found the manager not the crusty clerk aforementioned and I 1 was sent for my check changed to another car lau an elegant new palace e upholstered in peacock green high backs patent arrangements everywhere electric bells smart porter and said the manager this is a lower berth and therell be mo BO one above you so I 1 soon found myself conveyed from figurative terrestrial to celestial heights in point of comfort and elegance and without having found any fault or done any growling except a mental 8 squirm airm or two wrung r u from me by the sight sight of the II 11 bundles un d 1 e s before mentioned at ogden everybody is cautioned about the intense beat crossing the ithe desert deser thermometer in the car alkali dust an inch thick says one alees eyes nose and everything stopped up says another fans sell 01 rapidly and we lay in a stock of fruit and ana pickles qs lest the water should wane and we die of thirst and we supply ourselves with caps and cotton to keep our heads from getting bald and our mucious membrane from becom excoriated ing we start and we have a most delightful night sleep soundly and wake up feeling us as though we can stand a RIOUX along about noon we ask when will the worst come and learn that about 2 we reach thereat the real test of the journey it is pretty warm with some dust but nothing to what I 1 have stood in crossing the east ero ern plains with teams seven times Aimes before and when evening comes we are all alive no death by drouth no sacrifice ot of a soul by suffocation hav ing marred our peace we sit and sniff the balmy air until we arrive at this oasis for supper this is a delightful spot pot unlike the great american desert rt of sand and sods soda and sagebrush we are now in the midst of delightful verdure fertile fields send forth their fragrance grand old trees shoot upward and cut the clear blue starlit sky with their stalwart branches and waving of earthly surroundings which often come between us and heavenly things and serve to draw our admiration in spite of ourselves from the eternal to the evanescent yet can we bu be blamed for admiring nature in her greatest bagaty when we compare such scena with the barrenness which for far ages has bas cursed so much of the land otice once gifted with paradisa ical glory glary I 1 guess not GALLIC |
