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A GLIDE THROUGH THE GOLDEN
WEST.
Such a jollification as it will be! All
through the month of sunny June the
Seaboard special is going to carry its
load of fortunate passengers on a
sight-seeing tour of the wonderful
West.
The thirteenth International Sun
day-school Convention is to meet in
San Francisco, June 20-27th. This
convention is held every three years,
and is composed of the Sunday-schools
of the United States Canada, British
Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfound
land, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Saskatch
ewan Islands, New Mexico and Mexi
co. It is the second largest religious
organization in the world.
A RAILROAD’S HAPPY THOUGHT.
The Seaboard Air Line railway,
always wide-awake and progressive,
has seized the occasion of the Sunday
school Convention to make up a pleas
ure trip for its patrons that is the
marvel of the traveling world.
Mr. C. D. Wayne, the genial assist
ant general passenger agent, in talk
ing of the trip, says: “We are using
every energy to make our trip
through the West the most complete
and unique venture yet recorded in
the railroad w r orld.” And when he
starts out with a definite determina
tion, his success is marked. He does
the thing up as completely as the little
girl’s hen:
Gertrude, aged 4%, always lived in
the city, and had never seen a large
quantity of eggs at one time. One
day she was in a grocery where they
had just taken the lid off a case of
eggs.
Looking at the closely packed rows,
Gertrude remarked, with an apprecia
tive shake of the head:
“Whoever laid all those was some
hen!”
THE CHARMING ITINERARY.
The trip is not to be quite on “A
Slow r Train Through Arkansas,” or
even as bad as the “limited”, that
moved so slowly that the moving pic
ture man on the hillside was enabled
to get time exposures of the passen
gers and crew while the train w T ent by,
but it is to be accomplished in a digni
fied manner.
And the personnel of the party w’ill
be congenial and select, because they
are “Sunday-school folks”, and we
know they are all right. They may
not be as distinguished as were the
supposed companions of the prisoner
who appeared before the magistrate
on a charge of being drunk and disor
derly, but neither will they be so “ex
tinguished”: When asked by the
judge if he had anything to say for
himself, the debauchee smoothed
down a remnant of grey hair and de
livered himself thusly:
“Your Honor, ‘man’s inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands
mourn.’ I’m not as debased as Swift,
as profligate as Byron, as dissipated
as Poe or as debauched as ”
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES.
“That will do,” thundered the magis
trate. “Thirty days! And, officer,
take a list of those names and run ’em
in. They are as bad a lot as he is.”
During the tour the pleasure train
will touch at the following places:
Denver and Cripple Creek, Col.; side
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trips to Manitou, Cheyenne Canyons
and The Garden of the Gods, Colorado
Springs; from Colorado Springs to
Salt Lake City via the scenic route of
America, Salt Lake City, to Los An
geles via the interesting San Pedro,
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway;
side trips to Catalena Island and other
points of interest near Los Angeles;
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.
thence to Santa Barbara and Paso
Robles; thence to San Francisco, the
metropolis of the West, where four
days will be spent.
Although Brigham Young has passed
beyond the vale of matrimonial activi
ties, and can not extend either advice
or condolences, still the benedicts in
the party might like to view the habi-
The Golden Age for February 23, 1911.
Margaret Deberiy Upshato.
MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE CITY.
tat and the house of worship of the
man who, like Solomon, made a “mon
umental mess” of the marrying busi
ness. If they are wise, however, they
will not spend any time loitering
around the domiciles of the widows of
the said Brigham. Solomon said, “A
word to the wise is sufficient,” but in
his wildest moods he never said, “A
word to your wife is sufficient.”
THE SHORES OF SANTA BARBARA
But the wistful young men, the wise
husbands, the winsome maids and the
wrathful wives will mingle in a sea
son of “rejoicements” on the sun
kissed beach at Santa Barbara, where
the white caps of the fabled Pacific
pelt the happy bathers with their
feathers of foam. A sojourn at this
magnificent resort will rest and revive
the travelers and put them in splendid
shape for the convention at San Fran
cisco, which will be the next event
on the program.
From San Francisco to Portland;
thence to Seattle, and on to Yellow
stone Park, with all its mazes and
marvels. From its sylvan shades,
sublime spectacles and crystal
springs, bubbling up in virgin purity
from their hiding places in the heart
of the Rockies, the Seaboard family
will jump back into the commercial
maelstrom. A day in St. Paul will be
interesting to the ladies, because of
its flour mills. They will, of course,
be considerate on that day and say
nothing to “Hubby Dear” about want
ing “more dough”. And if they should,
the train will hurry on to Chicago,
where every man who has had the
wind knocked out of him can get a
new supply.
ABOUT TO “BUST”.
But, say, I can’t tell you all about
this glorious trip. If I tried to portray
its educational, inspirational and re
vivifying possibilities, it would come
as near klling me as it did the old
darky to write a love letter to his
sweetheart.
His boss had consented to write the
letter as the old darky dictated, and
here is what he said:
“Has yer got de paper and le ink
and de pen ready, sah?”
“Yes, Sam. Go ahead.”
“What has yer got written? Read it
to me, boss.”
“Thompson street, New York.”
“Dat’s right. Now write May de
fourteenf.”
“Has yer got hit down, boss, al
ready?”
“Yes.”
“G’way, boss; you’re jokin’! Read
it to me.”
“May 14.”
“Mah goodness! You has got hit
down all right. Now, boss, read hit
all over from de berry beginning.”
“Thompson street, New York, May
14.”
“Dat’s right. Whew! Say, boss,
let’s res’ awhile; I’s tired. My head
aches like hit was gwineter split.”
“But what about the cost?” some
body will naturally ask. It is astound
ingly cheap. And best of all, the
worry over tickets, baggage, connec
tions and all such “pesterations” inci
dent to a cross-country journey will be
dumped on to the broad shoulders of a
competent escort furnished by the
Seaboard. And the trip from Atlanta,
all-round by the sea, and back to At
lanta again, will be crammed to the
brim with the delights of travel minus
the customary cares.
I’m crazy to go, aren’t YOU? Let’s
ask Mr. Wayne about it, and maybe
he will deal as generously with us as
the youth did with the middle-aged
farmer, who accosted him outside the
Grand Central Station in New York:
“Young man,” he said, plucking his
sleeve, “I want to go to Central
Park.”
The youth seemed lost in consider
ation for a moment.
“Well,” he said, finally, “you may
just this once. But I don’t want you
ever, ever to ask me agaiin.”
