Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street. Julian Street

you have the honor of handling." Then they would read the name, and I could picture their excitement as they exclaimed and showed the check around the bank so that the clerks could see it. The only trouble I foresaw, on that score, was that probably they had not ever heard of me. But I was going to obviate that. I intended to sign the check "Rudyard Kipling." That would have given them something to think about!

      But, as I have said, the transaction never got that far.

      The principal street of Battle Creek may be without amazing architectural beauty, but it is at least well lighted. On either curb is a row of "boulevard lights," the posts set fifty feet apart. They are good-looking posts, too, of simple, graceful design, each surmounted by a cluster of five white globes. This admirable system of lighting is in very general use throughout all parts of the country excepting the East. It is used in all the Michigan cities I visited. I have been told that it was first installed in Minneapolis, but wherever it originated, it is one of a long list of things the East may learn from the West.

      After driving about for a time we drew up. Looking out, I came to the conclusion that we had returned again to the railway station.

      It was a station, but not the same one.

      "This is the Grand Trunk Deepo," said the driver, opening the carriage door.

      "I don't believe we'll bother to get out," I said.

      But the driver wanted us to.