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n he- _ This` The men in the car looked at each but'.ther with feelings of amazement, waslmixed with incredulity, but never a mrsefcomment. The diapason swelld to up alfortissimo. But nally the young y0u1d! superintendent could bear it no long- Jctor er. What is the answer?" he said. sub-; -The President looked at him a himgmoment blankly and suddenly seem- onlyled to recollect somiething. '\Y._ _ Collhs 5hi1h'5??te? 5`ii%`3f and Colds QUICKLY {train from? Have you brought it" from--? Then he shook mv 'n:mds and cried, and I began to feel '.n,\'sr.-If l going. 111'? 1- u , _A y 3' "`E How did you ever get here, and why didn't you ask orders? And I couldn t utter a word. I\was fairly dragged from the cab into the sta- tion master's ofce, and for three minutes I was more dead than alive. i Suddenly the door opened and in walked our president and directors, and I thought my day of judgment had come. Then to my amazement the President took my hand and said [something about the noble man. nev- ler would forget, irregular of course, {but masterful and a stroke of genius, saved all their lives and caught the `train, etc., which I could very in- idistinctly understand. But I do know lhe took off his gold watch and left it in my hands, and they shook hands with me and talked about of-\ lcial action would be taken, gave me some pocketbooks, etc, and just then the Chicago train came in and the big-wigs of both roads got to- gether and in a few hours a con- solidation was effected. The strike . was settled, and incidentally a few million dollars made by the directors. - The newspaper story that all our 1 men were dead had helped fix things - up all around. 17- T ,,,.... - -lI..2 1.47 A: unvu---... \ Well, in a few weeks I was a divi- .s:on supermtendent; the rest of my icareer you know. \u\. Jon -...-_..-_-_ ----,_, There was a murmuriof protest in! which the superintendent had th_e| most volume. . : ",`\'ut,`` pursued the President, but! that 1 might otherwise have got` along after a fashion, but I am sure! I \\'ul1ld not have been here except for A combination of circumstances which none of you will believe unless I ;i.~.~urt~ you it is true and can prove it it it court of law if nece_ssary. Tlmt settled it. The President was 1 tactiturn man, and those who. knew him best understood that when he haul :1 .~tury to tell the best way was` .. 1 . 1.;--- ,.....,t .9 2... la}: nuyn lav | "Oh, yes, I forgot that. You see, lithe strikers, who knew about the |s.pec1al, arranged to dynamite our ltram on the middle span of a bridge `across a swollen river not far be- :yond Aberdeen Junction. Well, a icoal train of a few cars of engine `fuel came along and the strikers `thought it was our special. In one {minute that train was at the bottom `ofthe river, and the station agent at 'the other end of the bridge. who lheard the noise, managed to see `what had happened, and wired that our train" was'the bottom of the creek, as he had every right to suppose, and as in fact did everyone else, |When that news got to New York there was a sensation. In those days lthrere was no scare heads nor pict- lure_s, but Wall Street circles were ljarred up to about noon when the !contradiction of the report nally I got around. .-1: .1, - -.-,J:-....-.A uurnc nnf Q5JfiQ- was ncrvuua. -Well? he said, inviting more, for the President seemed to have ended. Oh, yes, said the latter, I for- got. One of the strikers weakened at the last moment, went to Aber- deen Junction, set the switches to .run us off on the Y and on to the Wandervelt plug line, expecting, of course, that we would stop and in- vestigate. Well, as I told you, both reman and I were asleep and we were well on the foreign road before we got awake. Otherwise we would have gone down with the bridge. It "was the only lucky thing ever knew to happen to an engineer while asleep at his post. But it never seerned to me likely to happen __ .. ....... on bnnw T have alt. uvu IAn\rvu--\-- _ Still, the audience was ed, and the young supe was nervous. __- -.-u -1 ______L__~ Iseemea to me uncsy L\J ....,,,._- agam so, as you all know, I have a1- wa_ys fought for decent hours for trammen. " ` ' L- .....L..In cup 9 ITHIHIIICII. Nobody caring to match such story as this, all went to bed. ',/ OILED CLOTHING I I` -. BLACK OI YELLOW /\ Perfect Protection - I Ir orvica l\fIE _ lience not satis- supermtendent v '\V` `"9" ' 2400-: `V50 mm` WATERPROOF CLOTHING BLACK Sold Everywhere av; uocv vv vv we-u. V-the shaxpgst cough. --try it on aguar-- antee of your money back if it doesn t actually CU RE guicker than anything you ever tried. Safe to ' take,--nothing in it to hurt euen a. baby. 34 years of success commend Shi1oh s Cure--_ 25c.. 81. am ` l|dH .1 .`HHV LU Lynx Luv I-I`-'-`V ""J to let him'givc it in his own way. 'I`\. . n._..,.:.!.\..+ 1n..n-Inc-r1 Innlrnd Veneer Longest f'I"OI'ECIIOI'I Service Low in Price I Idllllhlruv 5 If -YOU WEAR _-D1- I`) ICI llllll g1VL' IL Ill IIID UVVI1 VVSOJ, The President laughed, looked at his cigar and threw it away..Then'he ` L-an fm`wZtI`d as if talking to a syn- tlltttlc of bankers concerning a very large deal. * Before I was thirty I had run a loc for some years in the. East, and I do say that I considered` myst-11' equal to the best. Thencame` (me of the strikes so frequent in t=i:-.~-.- days, and 1 was stranded. With :1 hit of others '1 hoofed it for the! We.-.-t on some friendly cabs, and was lunrlcd in Central Ohio, where there! `.`\'lt>? a strike and engineers needed.` 1 `\`'i.`l always a Union man, but the` T'1$J:i1t't*rs on this road had sent men, In tlrrow us out in the East, so. Ii had no qualms of conscience in tak- in; a run. | That last expression seems easy `m -xx. but in those days, It W35 not :1 run for your money, but f0! Your life. I was a. husky fellow .ld llzlmllu :1 revolver or a brickbat, and mzulv things so lively that I was Soon ace high with the whole push of (.-fcials on the Quaker road aS I mll call it. Thus it came about _tl_1at once after I had been out for th1rty- kight hours on the east and west ru_n I wan` told by the-master mechanic that 1 must go up on a run to_wards Tolctlr) to make a connection at; }\j:1mx1 City, _ 0 A . u ,_- - _. T. euvnrl ..\I)| \_, F I kicked. Gentleman, I` 5_W*'e roundly that I would not d9 It. W1! was dead for sleep, and the 'd3.f taking out a special of eXPY5_5.o mas and a private car full of d1r,C,t0f5- presidents and Wall Street magnates was not to my notion. I had 3 8171 back east, and she had never heard. from me since I got m) 5013- I. had. thought to write, her. _ A .. 4, { Mmnroku SQ mnos us A snPi:iub1i%% scnoo;;.': We have iunong our'tn`dex_t| a peoplnwho havetakenbusiness couuc;sd|ewhere.'huxvho, agvatuges Busing: saaooucudsiugzuausu. havecmnehuuoraP0F*r'f1"3%`.if|8,0P1"3,33`nii- Q .` ~' ,4.+++w+mwMmMmmMH+ 4 A recognized authority,` Mr.` Puddicombe, director of he Ottawa Conservo;-A tory of Music, says in part : V The Pirat%%Enginer. ' That was wa A y"eiLri ago. Mr. Puddico1II.l3QM.g writesnoyar; ` 1 -V1, ofntle.sz:'n1:dfh.em curtain-O':_`|V|0s 1$`.'iE.2?`l`n'?:,".'3's~.u.ay"" "U-.: June 39. 1 .1- I was grenv suI P,'zo"`d delighted with the Hump-ON`? Pins 1 played on last rush?- foun it to be one of 3110 ,` frateful of all the upright PUP`??? have "avg: tried. j ... \ - .v.'. wearing quality it} th_e uonuerva-I ' :1`-`y herc':y..u`xd| at as Wr i te V for _cIIIIOII_C,,p"~:`_`g prices and temmof Mu`un- 'n?=* W'?sA *.: .1: % Write for our PI !~ V But I was `told t'hat"this.-was an ; exceedingly important run,` that the lbigyqigs must getup to the Wander- velt `line by daylight to_ meet -a `lot of ~C.hica'go fellows who werej going `to put our own line, known as th Quake_;Road, on the blink. A` ' .I_!. If,,' -; V`: 1 had}{e"vZr~%'6ei7 oh" this line at nrall, and _told the master mechamc `some thmgs which are not fit for publication but in the end I agrcd impctm-t nL`if1"|e after midnight and yuuuI..auuu_l] uulu ul. uu; uuu J. u5n_\.\.u tostart _a. ittle after _'midnight [and try to get to Mason City go shut off the Chicago people in tune for a deal that would settle a lot of things. ,- ._.,`.l ,-_L I.__.. ;`.~.... :1. o\`- n`1 luctu Llll VVUUIU 3C|uLlC G IVE vs Vllllllbuo I would not have done it at all if` had nqt been given '3, reman who was saxd to knp_w every fence corner on the road. .. .4 . _ _p VAL I-nav o I wish Iv-could telt you a lot of - things; but that is not my forte ; AI sunply got ready, and away we ew on a queer looking locomotive. It was in the days` when_ the best would be considered archaic/ now, but at that time we took what we could` get. This old thing" was bet- :ter than she looked, because she had been battered by` the strikers until she looked like a fossil dug out of ithe Jurassic strata. 1 _|___~...I ....{..l..:...~I LIAM J Mluuu-v -1--o-v- lthough I.was nearly dead for sleep, and so we started with nothing but mail and express, and the President s `car on behind so as to fool the strik- ers. They" were even then afraid` of the mails. ` My mother s ancestors came from Vermont, and in late uyears I have been up in the hills and 'r.ol1owed cowpaths which now seem lto me straight compared- with that [combination of two streaks of rust and the right of way. My heart was in my throat for about an hour, but the reman kept me. posted, and I made fairly good for over three hours, -when he mentioned that we were now on a long down grade tangent andthe way was certain to be clear. Now, Ihad no more idea of going to sleep `than. I have now, but Nature got in her work. I thought I would close my eyes for a few sec- onds and let the reman lookout and give me a chance.U I do not known how long they were closed- I never -have found out-but the first think I knew the oldwengine was ' chug-chugg-chugging as if she were '; going up an Alleghany grade, and al-| ;'lmos t stopped. \ K v vr , ,1-;_;_ 1 1...: 11:34:11 r1:-n9111`I1'Io`, Andi I was -young and dared anything, 5 [most atupycu. 9 I I confess I had been dreaming, and Iwhen I awoke it took, a few` cseconds itog get my latitude. Then I looked `across at the reman and he was lsound asleep on his seat. `I looked !at the steam gauge and we were go- ling at about the lowest moving not- lch. In a minute I- had roused him up land he began to pile in coal, and lsoon we were able to move a `little. better, and_ nally got under fast motion again. _ V A . I was much disturbed. I wondered if he had seen _me go to sleep. I pre- had, and therefore it was hardly up to me to be t-oorharsh. I omitted -all reference to sleep or steam, but asked him where we were. That seemed to be a poser for him, and I-surmised V that he had been asleep"as long as I had, but he gave me a qualied remark, which saved himself, because I could not deny it. ,-I_- T ...nn 0) n_ IIlIIl3\ll, klwwuo--v 7 - I was.now wide-awake. I was a t- gually scared to death. It was in he summer; and there was some moon'- ;light, but the first glints of dawn `were doing somethmg or other 1.2-1. CI..a.lpm-.-nnai-A rolls abO'l1t, WCIC uuua ...---___,, , V `which :Shak'<:spea`r,e tells about, which I do not remember. Now,'. I was in a most embarrass- ing position.- -Considering the down grade } and present low steam I might have been asleep half an hour or more, and ` I the reman. I. could not afford -to ,say anything for fear. he would give [me away. `I "took out my running card and looked it over carefully, intending to ask what the` next sta- |tion was so as to get my `bearings and gures out whether I was making time or not. The fact that I had - ..... .1... President and`Board so might have been. br 'JJ1e _tact ma: .1 ...... behmd me the Presxdent and '_Board of Directors, who were gomg,to make millions for the company `or gp into" bankrupty, made my ~ posi- tion almost intolerable.` ' ~ .- _l Now, -_in my youth_ `[1 was mimh blamed for my * volubxhty. .-I` '-always. _said_ too much and W351. apt to be. sassy, but) of?` late V. I hid _kept.,_my ' tI.18ue- bcau.el'll1 tid->5, ; notmant-lemye ~name_- knqwnr as-lone who: had lefpon V sill` ours?-n'a,l _ %el:`9;`1,f* 310* Mb" `I? 3 I012, LEI byuxsa. ` pug '9l`.17.9=39,rf.h557 sbbuldx t`3 _ gh 5 59:19.: _- 4.2` Letnlng ' U1 *ULl.l\pI tells whxch fciojuid i$1a:i:' 5.5+ that. i -`the -Wfndervelt` road. Our own V road ; a rising grade section. (V,If ,9,,,`,4__ _____.'A. -`!_-y--- . ----.. -"K H _ -..---v . --- -v.. .,._-_-w ~ ~ . .i ` .t1y..3I;> dexna1id_d eof-2 .ihiri;_I. where- we `vvI1e,;_g,ind:__`lie} ireplied`~that'3`w`e were gist ,gc_o;311ng;.J,nto, Wa'lton. -' That. `was .sa;{i.sfacto j , ..f;`h`ec ause ' Walton . `was, just`.-outsi' fe {of-` "the Junction at Ab- er deen,.7 witl1f;.3the."Sout1icrn branch of, bore off: tojiff .west,j and. it -was forty miles v.'to2j"th_e'M_ason City junction we gwereto m`a'.ke"`l5y four. ofclpck, though the Wandervelt .plug 11 ne"here, as they.call it," fvvou,ld.have taken us to i the main line -.in less time. I had? suggested to the tmaster mechanic that we get running rilghtswover the - plug line,_ wihch. was principally a milk and coal route, but our folks found that the other peoplezwould not get mixed up in the strike situa- tion, and so I cosidered we must make `good speed, as we had lost a .10t_ of time. We had only little over. an hour to make nearly forty miles and that was the best we could pos'-` 'sibly`do, and Igfeared'we couldhard-' ly fetch it, as we were getting into` 1.--! .....1 -....i $ 3""5' -Ivy-n_v--v . ,, _ . Soine minutes * went -by and we I should have"r_eached Aberdeen junc_- - tion, butpl `saw no signs of it, and i askedxthe reman, who said, we were just; there, that it was just:,ar,ound -the curve. Th'en,:.he slappled,-th e sides` of his head and "put oi1j`$Omej. coal and `began to mutter. In, -'th"ee_. miles `hamlet,-but there was '-`norsign of a Junction, and I got mad. ' Where in the deuce are we now",I'. I demanded. The reman looked at me with_;,a face which, in spite of the coal dirt, - looked ashen in the light of the open furnace door. ` _ We're all right, _ _.he said, AtEhc junction is two miles ahead. T-he ' shadows deceived me. - I did not like. this a bit. It was 1 bad enough to be rushing `through a space behind a battered old` teapot more we passed jthrong 1 Via little` I with the President, and directors _in tow, but not to know where on the globe we were situated was too much : O/\$. 911:0-111.16 rninn Ilfhiph` 81006 We Wclc auuatcu was Luv nun... -tor nerves like mine, which had been kept up to the highest pitch" by over- work. ,However, `I saw the dim glimmer of lights ahead and waited to see what town it was. There was _no junction and no stop signal, so I let her go, and as we passed through I could easily see that it was Mallon. The headlight showed the sign on the little wooden station, and besides there was a big ware- house with immense letters on it showing the name, as wellas on a brewery and a coal yard. 50 I got out my-running card and looked for Mallon. I did not nd it at first glance, and thought I must be ner- vous. I looked at my watch to see where we should be, and as I live there was no such town as Mallon, on the card, and it was evidently a I fair-sized town. ~ g `nun: annoy`. .. Now, under. other circumstances, 1| would have called the reman motel names than he could have appreciat- ed, but it struck me that as he knew I had been asleep I had better play safe. `So I remarked casually: l L`- - L:......'| DGIC. QU L nunnauu -can ----- --_, . ' I don% see Ldanon on the thne card? . -- - . n 1 ,__n_.! u-[\;,` Lu. ` Jumping cats, he yelled. Didn you see that, too? _ See what, you idiot? I _ I Mallory _Yes,'I replied -rathei' gruly, _Il can read letters four f_ee_t.-high.;\.hwhen the headlight. is dead` -i'o`n ."th't'n.' Where `is your old own, anyway?"A . , _ v -4_._\. J`.. .....al `n I -cely, thinking that perhaps I could VV.u\..L\. :9 JV ..,, , _ _ Just then we struck _a' curve` and `a1 grade, and we had both asemuch as! we could do to _keep up her spe'ed.[ But Is noticed that between every; shovelful the reman would look out with a wildness in his eye that made me creep. When we got tova decentl` stretch I turned on him rather er- blu him down from ever telling on ' Ill: `_`See here, I `took this run" because they said` you had been on. it for twenty years and knew every: inch of the road; Back East, w.h-ere 1 came from, _I could tell every fence corner `in three . counties. Now,-b1ink, blink, you, where the `bubblety blun_k, are we? I must calculate on our time. 1 AL I_-1_ Wi J. lulu u u w u a w w - - - V V -- -77- , I _ I should have -said_rnore, but look- mg out I saw a. freight ~tra1n ahead of us just coming out of a siding. I - gave the hoot, hoot, putfon some "air, but the freight backed in time, while theitrain fnen on theother side looked at me as: ..if we were Cfazy. - _ - . un...+ cirlinn in H1212 .1 ve]led_ craz._y. _ What sidmg is that, .I yelled. We nearly got the-dump. ` I turned to look at the reman and he was the picture of terror. He Ev.ry box orMboney*s.nerrdgn ?_ Ctfam yfau ' `Tits hv A M` ' E . - . , . . ~- i picked" upiihis `shovel A "a;.way that. made we think'_he' iwas going to at- tack me. Then.he dropped it and looked out..of the window. _ At that moment we passed 'Saunders. I.loo_k- ed ;_at the. time` card, and thet'.e._was nofsuch place. By this time*yo u`,can believe. that I was alarmed. I knew, of `course, that we must be.some1 . where on a railroad, but I had n_`ver heard of anyonebeing lost on a. pail` of rails, and as the track ahead seem- ' ed` pretty good I went '-after that .r`eman`~in a way. that was` a` caution. I"didn t come out on an expeditiop to the North Pole, nor to nd Liv- ingstone. If you know'where` `you are,-spit it out If not, tell me how we got here. Also I said things .1` won t repeat. ` - V ' Finally `I managed to` make out that we had by some means `got o our road and on to the Wandervelt plug line that I have mentioned. The reman knew this because he was familiar with the ` names of the sta- tion we had passed and the_se.had [thrown him into a t. - e l"m:`i"Vf wx:`iV1;Erion am we ge lhcre, tell me that? , 1 I'l`P ,1. L,-; 'I__ This w'rH{r dimcuit, but `her said down at zthe junctnon point .there was a Y `connecting the two roads, and we must have been swit- ched o `without our knowing it. Evidently this remarkable occurrence had taken place "whil'ewe were both asleep, but why for how I could notl tell. B_ut I saw my chance. ' , UCLA. JJUIU L H50 It Job. up--uouovvu _ _ Yes, I thought the way we curved o was in the wrong direction, but I expected "you to say so if-`we were wrong. You were asleep andlet me get off here on a foreign road with a lot of millionaires and all of us .lia- blc to spillall over the landscape any minute in a collision. . (This was a lie, as I knew nothing about it.) ' ` r---- 4-A-4_ V Then I jump_ed on him some more, `just to'c0w lum. and square myself- llt was a great_bTuff and worked ne. E Jos. M. Rogers-:in_ Am.efiea:.1Magazine.} $++++~z-a-a~-a-+-s--a-o:--1-4:-ea-:-+++[:-1--`x-9:-++:444 ) f H0t\iV1ev1::r, II `kept `the, engine goirritg or in s , we are going in t e right directioh, and if we go btck we won t make that train, and. are as- liable to get ditched as if we keep =ahead. But when I tried to get something out of the remangas to" the road, the distance, and the like, he was little better` posted than 1, Luckily I remembered that I had an advertising folder of our road, con- taining a map of Ohio and adjoining states, which. I had kept in my jack-` et for study at odd moments. | -- I A`_-__ .C..1.`I,..... Thu.- CL IUI aLuu`y up You remember those folders. They were a good deal more exaggerated then than now. The State of Ohio was made all out of proportion, so that our lines, printed in heavy black bands, seemed to go straight to all cities. Then there were a lot of crooked lines, the size and -shape of '3. spider web, which represented the lcircuitous tracks of rivallines. \I\n\. ...v_._.- ._ | bllvunovuu -.y-`--.. |. After some study I located our po- sition with relative accuracy, and' we appearedeto be about thirty miles south of Benton Junction, where the plug line of the &Wandervelts'struck the parent stem. ,As this was east of Mason City, where our ' line crossed, and whither we were sup- posed to be speeding, it gave us that much more time to catch the train supposing we got there at all, of [which there seemed to me a good [deal of legitimate doubt. `|`7-_- _ 2-- f`...\...-. east-bound~from Chicago; that is,` Ubal UL Ava-54---u-y ..v_._- Talk about -Captain Kane in Green- land or Stanley in Africa--those gen- tlemen at least knew where they lwere and how to prepare for danger.- `Personally I felt like a cross be- {tween a. pirate king and a bank burg- lar. I think it wasthe first time 111 history that a train got lost and rac- Lcd `across country? on a rival line.l The cold sweat was on my brow and] goose esh came out all over meat every turn in the road. At any min- ute I expected to go crashing into a train--for this " was a single track road. `Once I was certain I saw a headlight justahead of me. There was no time to give her air or even ' ' -~ 7 -L--6 `canny A110: and Cid 5| time to give UCI qu U1 W-.. jump, so I shut `my eyes and said a prayer, -and nothing happened. It was a window light in a cottage by the road. , I liaveoften, wished that I could tell the story of the incidents of that night. -There is a fellow called Kip- ling, who has done some things or seen some things or at_ leasthas written some things.` I wish he had been with me that night. -- I--U... 1.1.1.`:-u.I n UCCH With 1115. u..... --.-_-. `Some of you have been behind a } safe horse at night driving over a 1 well-known road and have been . scared to death every -minute by shadows. When I was at school - there. was a fellow onice read me 1 something from Dante. I now have 1 some ne editions of that Italian . poet,'but then I `could only think ; about his nine degress of hell and ' tlte punishment that would come to people who made mistakes. Thinks .I, if we go into a ditch we will have a very pleasant meeting when `Char- on takes us across_ in the boat. Once we came on~'a grove of trees where some camp people were gathered. They were singing songs, a out every day being Sunday `by and by, or words to that eect- I thought we were going ri ht into the camp `i You may think this is .ima9:ination. but when I swept around the. curve 1 was sure I saw some angels giving e"me `kisses. "I `would. have ; looked . more` particularly,` `but at that. mom- ent I saw some highwaymen in mass `trying to hold us up. They waved the red lights, but I=:`went by` in a hurry. It was only a delusion. We '- had "a good milefto run before __I .-turned -into `one..o,fT'tl`1.ose. olt_l+fa._s_hion- d covered .bridg`es,~ and I put__'on1fu-l_l; ' steam; I was` by thjsii timg, ~:pl;e (ared; I for ` onythi!'18.= `and lit` .tiiad<*e;4ii10.;L 13?- :-.fence to me whether it __W,.S`- breakfast; A ; oi-- .f.dath.I Tliisp "sounds1:`ridi<:1IloIus;j . I` ma an ta;1l,<.i -manY . 1. wi_,th=% 'Stan1'eY.` : Wh02*V s V , rurica. tanid. he tome .me; L ` `-the='natives' ` ;thing the natives ot that CUuuucun.- "feared was} darkness. IT-hey would _die-Lcheejrfully T1} the daylight, but to `go ten f__et; into the, darkness was. imore . than " --could: be__-A/expected, of ;.1'i i`e.?3z'; :~ Lubaun u:ppo; ~"_i11~g_-t` as. am-:; _ 1 : to~ Jive aVs ' i .ou:'that. . in._ those moments when Ix cxpectedl tot go to death all "the time I was` worked up into `a'<`sit-uationA that has never been described. The President an_d most of the directors, along wxth ~sorne of"the chief ofcials of the road,-were seat- ed in the rear sectxon of the spegal ca, Smoking _and telhng. storms. These had a wxde range and were so interesting that, thoughethe hour be--J. came late, no one proposed to go to? bed_ The rhythrmc Ijumble of the! train gave :1 sort of dxapason accom-`V paniment ta; lthek stonest of_t.stran_ge `d t;, o uc y oppor um xes sem- `*E`f"..fm,;..a price: and the like; All *I arri not a brave. manT"at `all,tI think I am as` timid as~ any, but I m_ade'1up my mind that I,might as .w;.el-I see the end of all things then as any..tiine, and the only thought I had was of` the girl in the. East. "Some _fellow or other of whom I have read said. when he went into battle; Westminster or a peerage. T-hinks| I, it\ is me for a good job or a cor- oner s inquest. And because I could thing of nothing else I let her go like the devil, and that I am here to-[ &y_ is no thanks to the evil one at` tau. - I . ;j;By-.__this time I was almost ma'g. Of` course you _` will -say,that I oug t to, 'h'a\_Ieis1t_op ed and ,,l_5 acl;ed up, or, at .le'as_`t,_-hel .up'at `some station side track? and` roused any giprator. I `did- n t . for .,.several; V reasons. In the I first! place, there. was no chance to make! .Benton~ Junction on this foreign road and meet those Chicago. _,men if I kept on giving the old teapot her maximum of speed. Of course, we might get ditched, but I gured out` I s thatif I gave awaythe situation to anybody my career as a railroad-man was ended, and possibly that of a criminal in ne striped clothes was just opening. Moreover, the longer `I thought of it the surer it seemed to me that the `only chance was to bluff [it out. I wasn t sleepy by this time, jyouvcan gamble, but I was near to l being a maniac, so I concluded to let her go_Gallagher for election and` : take my chances. As for the mil-i : lionaires behind me, I didn t care a . rap. I wanted to save my own ba-I |con. ; _road was steep and crooked, and I "go the reman kept piling in the` coal, and we made fair speed,` but the had to use a`1ot of steam keeping the whistle sounding most `of the time, and th' brought on a rather unexpected mplication. .. . ._ -,1 l_--v--r'--v.. 7---- The conductor had been asleep in the express `car, as he also had been forty-eight hours on duty, and ex- pected to wake up back at the junc-I tion we had missed so curiouslygl When he heard the whistle going hel -came in a` hurry, and it wasn t long before "he looked out and took in thel situation. Then he gave me the bell} to stop, but I surmised what he wasl up to and kept right on. He did this ve or six times and then I `guess he thought the engine wasl running away or I was crazy, so he comes forward climbing over the back of the tender, the maddest man in~Ohio except myself. -7. 7--- _._A..._ Qur line of conversation was inter-I estmg and brief. We cussed each` ,other as long as we had any breathn Then the conductor demanded to know what I was doing on a foreign road. I told him to go chase him- self. He evidently thought I was insane, and was convinced when Ii told him I had my orders, which he-f ,,_,,,JA,.`I ... ....,. I +n1rl him {F `I1;-i ll 1 u 111] Uluula, vvlnasn: nun - lm;-.nded to see. I told him if he} hadn t been asleep at the junction he would have his own duphcate. This , bluff staggered him for a minute, butx he came at me, and I saw he was! going to. make trouble. Of course; 1 hated to do it, butl picked up :1: wrench and laid it on where it would! ----L --A4 "P1-.A nnnr`nnfnr WICIICII auu uuu u. uu Vvuuny .. no... do the most good. The conductor_ curled up on the coal and the sub-: sequent proceedings interested him; no more. Actually, he was onlyi stunned, and was all right in a few! hours. And the reman kept on; shoveling without a word, -I had readi about those men whose hair grew. =-- - -:.....1- ..:...1..'+ am! I {pit it : 300111 IDOSC llltu wuuax. nun 5... grey in a single night, and I felt if! 1 got through with any hair at all! mine would look like great-grand-? mo.ther s. I now felt worse than! ever. I`didn t know but I was 213 It murderer as well as a piratical ex-l lplorer, but, thinks I, there is nothil ing to do but keep her going, and this was getting worse` all the time, especially as I nearly _ran down as .mur.e,d milkand passenger accommo-I dation, w ich was fortunately near a! switch, a (1 they got out of my way` in a hurry, while I didn t stop to. answer any questions. I My situation was this, I should! have been at our Mason Junction ati ve o .c1ock. I could `just make Ben-l ton Junction by six, which wouldbel 1' about the_time the east bound train would arrive there. % L1__L 1..-; luuonfxr. Wuunu an Livy UlI\r- I can't dwell on that lasttwenty upto the station at Benton Junction and a more surpnsed lot of raxlway men you never saw than were there. The train-despatcher came down and made for.me in a way that made my heart sink, but my attention was dis yerted by a crowd of newsboys yell- mg : - v . T EXTRA! THE PRESIDENT ` AND ALL THE DIRECTORS V OF? THE QUAKER ROAD KILLED. BRIDGE DYNA- ` "` ` "F111? uC'lDT'I(. l but a few rninutes to six I hauled ,..... .... The President stopped smoking` a! very large cigar and looked into the` young man's face until it was full of blushes and the heart was full c_>f' tremor. Then the Presidentlaughed and remarked : T _- ___ How my heaa swam, I drought fbr_ su1_'_e I was crazy at last. The tram`-d1spatc}_1er came? at me with his face whlte a_s_-a sheet : _ VWhere have Tyou `brought thus MITE_D` BY T A lame Jhorsg Acotn:>!ete.,t3te-'?-`ef- le V ~ _ 1.00 1 home etc for 85; Golgi g Galen eve:-ywhete; write for free of 1 T A .-'3 Yoagwillndnncedfotgitgvexy y. lvtutoulbopk-.-.`% _ -4 `bl. ~'.7`I,$73`_!_DIuIi .L.I.I\JJa an-..-~7, THE 'STRIK- I might as well tell it now, I nev-I er yet have told it,` but I`guess it v.-on`t hurt--I am the greatest acci- dent in American railways. I