The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-01-03

shirt unbuttoned at the throat his sleeves
rolled up with a pistol in his teeth and
thus glaring upon the fireman who lay mo-
tionless upon the fuel The furnace was
stuffed Till the very latch of the door was red
hot, the whole engine was quivering and
swayed as though it would shiver in pieces
"kro!ler! kroller!' cried at the top Of
my voice.
The crazy engineer started and caught the
pistol in his hand. Q, how those great
black eyes glazed and ghastly and frighten-
ed the face looked.
"Ha ha. ha!' be yelled Economically,
giaring upon me like a reused lion. They
swore could not make it, but see See
my power See my new engine l made
it-snd they were jealous OF me. | made
1t, ard twas stole it from me! But I've
found 1t. For years I've been wandering in
search OF my great engine-and they swoTe
1t was not made! But I've found it, |
knew it when l saw it at Dantzg-and
was dc,erm ned to have it. And I've got it.
Ho. no. ho!-werc OF TO the moon, l
say BY the Virgin Mother, well be in the
moon in four and twenty hours Down !!
down, villain. If you move III shoot
you"
This last was spoken To the fireman who
at that moment attempted to rise and the
frightened man sank back again.
Here's Little Oscue, right ahead - cried
one Of the guard.
But even as he spoke, the buildings were
at hand. A sifkening sensation settled upon
my heart, for | supposed We were gone
now. The houses iiew by lk. lightning. |
knew if the officers here had turned the
switches as usual, we should be hurried into
eternity in one fearful crash | saw a
fash twas another engine; | closed my
eyes; but still We thundercd on. The Off
GERS had seen our speei, and knowing that
we could not haul up at that distance, they
had changed the switch, that We kept
right on.
But there va : sure death ahead il We did
not stop. 0nlF fifteen miles cad was the
town Of SehweIz. on the Nistula, and at the
entrance, near the bank ei tie river, was
short curve in the road. Aud al the rate We
were now going we Should Ie there in a few
minutes. for ed .h minute carried US over q
mile The sid ici<s Of the passengers now
rose a5oye the crash Of IA Il, and more ter
rife ihaa all Sc, arose The deDOaizc We Is
of the engineer
'Mercful Hcaven," gaspei the guards
man. ''Iaerc's not moment to be lost -
Schwsiz n close by, If you dare not go,
III 80 sayself. Bot hoi.' he added
Let's shoet him -
At ,hat moment tall, stout German stu
dent came over to tile platform where We
stood. ard We Saw thatt. mailman .rrd ms
heavy pistol af1iS5 at Us. lie grasped a
heavy stick Of wood frem the tender and
with a sl adiness Of nerve IS .... could not
have comma uded, hurled II with such force
and precision that he ksoeked the pist0. from
tle msnise's- grasp
SAW the rnoreinent, and the instant L ~
the pistol fell, | sprang forward, and ne
German followed | sraspcd the man 10y
the arm but / should have been a mere in
fant in lis mad power had / been alone
lie would have hurled NE from the plat
form, had not the staden: al that moment
struck him on the head with stick OF wood
which he threw over the tender.
KroIer settled down like d. ad man, and
on the next moment, ! shut oil the steam
and opened the safety wave rs the freed
steam shsiskei and howltd in Is eScspe, the
speed Q! the tram began 70 decrease, sHh IN
icw moments the danger was passed and
as .ei,ied back. entirely overcomr by the
wild emotions that h@;. -! -. w....t. ing, We
began 20 turn the curve by the river, and
before was fully recovered, the fireman
had stopped the train in the station house at
Schwetz.
Martin Krolle-, still insen.be. vas taken
from the platform, and as We carried him in
to the gusrdroom, one of the guards recos
nizcd him and to,,iuS that he had been there
about two week before.
lie came" said tbs guard, ''anl swore
than an engine which stood near here was
his. lie said II was one ne had made 10 20
TO the moon in, and that it lad been stolen
from him. We sent for more hep 10 arrest
HIM and he fed"
"eii, replied with shudder, Il wish
he had approached me in the same way
But he was more cautious al DCutzig."
At Schnetz I've found an engineer 10 run
the engine to Bronberg; ana having taken
out the western NAL, for The next northern
train to tsk. along, saw that krollcr
would be property attended TO, and then
started on.
The rest of the way we run in safety,
though could see that some Of the passen-
gers were not wholly at ease, and would not
be until they were entirely clear OF the rail-
way.
i heavy pnrs, was made up by them for
the German student, and lie accepted II with
much gratitude; ami | was glad CT II, for
the current Of their gratitude TO him may
have prevented far different current which
might have been poured upon my head for
having engaged mad man 10 run a railway
tram.
Bat tl,is is not tlo end. Martin kro,er
remained insens:ble from the effects OF that
blow on the head nearly two weeks, and
then he was sound in mind again. His in
sanity was all gone.
saw him abou, three weeks afterwards,
but he had no recollection OF me. He re
membered nothing Of the past ycar-not
cycn his mad freak on my engine.
Bnt I remembered it, and remember
still and people need never fear that shah
be imposed upon-by crazy engineer.
MR. RUsKiS's OBJECTIONS To ENGLISH NEAT
SEss.--Then that spirit of tirmness in Eng
land--the smooth paving stones; the scraped
hard, even, rutless roads; the neat gates
and plates, and essence Of border and order,
and spikiness and Spruceness. Abroad,
country house has some confession of hu-
man fates about it.-There are the grand
old gates still; which the mobs pressed
sore against at the revolution and the stra-
tened hinges have never gone SO well Since;
and the broken greyhound on the pillar
still broken-better SO, but the long avenue
is gracefully pale with fresh green, and the
courtyard bright with orange trees; the
garden is ailittle run TO waste-since made
moisele was married nobody cares much a
bout it; and one range OF apartments is
shut up-nobody goes into them since
lnademe died. But, with Us, let who will bo
married or die, we neglect nothing; all is
polished and precise again next morning,
and whether people are haa! or miserable,
poor or prosperous, still we sweep the Stairs
on Saturday. Modern patnters
A SACRAFIcE FOR A PRINCIPLE-The Jour
nal de Frankfort relates the following story:
"a few days since a foreigner presented
himself Mt the office of a merchant at Ham,