. Book of the Royal blue . River and througha region when- you said, I dont want them toburn my coat. Your j<iurney to Pittsburg isnow through smoke and dust, tin- like of whichyou never heard outside of l)antes clouds of grime and smoki will almost shutout the light of day, getting worse and worse asyou near Pittsburg. Bells will be clanging andwhistles will be shrieking, but not for you ; theydo it anyhow. Railroad tracks with enormousrows of freight cars of all kinds will stretchbefore your eyes on each side of your train, andthe sound of great steam lianmiers, of ringinga
. Book of the Royal blue . River and througha region when- you said, I dont want them toburn my coat. Your j<iurney to Pittsburg isnow through smoke and dust, tin- like of whichyou never heard outside of l)antes clouds of grime and smoki will almost shutout the light of day, getting worse and worse asyou near Pittsburg. Bells will be clanging andwhistles will be shrieking, but not for you ; theydo it anyhow. Railroad tracks with enormousrows of freight cars of all kinds will stretchbefore your eyes on each side of your train, andthe sound of great steam lianmiers, of ringinganvils and ponderous cranes, and the snorting ofdonkey engines, and the roar of great engines,the hoarse screams of locomotives and the con-tinued whirr of many wheels will almost shut outall other sounds from your ears, and you canhardly hear yourself think. Do not be do that always there and the jieople areused to it. Finally you will pull into Pittsburg,and .\unt Ada will meet you there, and UncleTom, SIGN WRITING. 11V F. J. yoiXG. HE writing of advertisements hasirrown into a profession, but the T X_ older business of sign painting hasnot advanced so far. While somegive considerable thought to the arrange-ment of the matter on their sign boards,others seem to think that anyone with apot of paint can do all that is necessary tocall attention to their wares of business,and we often see some funny combinations. Originally signs were intended for thosewho could not read, and the design usedwas meant to attract and be striped pole, adopted when part of thebarbers trade was to bleed customers, andthe wooden Indian of the tobacconist, arethe most conspicuous of the survivors ofthis custom, although the latter is becom-ing rare, and Tonsorial Artists withHair Cutting Emporiums have largelysupplanted the old-style shop. In Eastern Pennsylvania some of the oldtaverns still go by the names by whichthey were known in colonial times. Inone county signs
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