Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-16
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CHANGES AND CHANGES.
A Railroad Renaissance.
BY FRANCES D. GAGE.

ID say, Mr.. Conductor, when will the
next express train 60 cut to st. LOUISE
Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes !"
"Go to Texas! Why, it's ten this very
minute. Eli bet my boots against jack
knife the morning express is off, sEi 90
z'"Yes, sir, it has been gone half an hour." !"
saz"Why in nature didn't you get us here
sooners Fourteen hours in Chicago is
enough to break fellow all to smash. Four
teen hours in Chicago, putting and blow
ing! I've been told they keep a regular
six hundred hoss steam power all the while
q running, TO blow themselves up, with.
and pick the pockets of every traveller to
pay. the firemen and engineers! Wall,
guess l can stand it; I've twenty that's
never been broke, think that will put me
through. Why didn't you fire ur, old brag
give your old hoss another peck of oats
tell ye, this fourteen hours viii knock my
calculations all into the middle of next
week" ..@.
.HVery sorry, sir-we've done our best
hut as we are not clerks of the weather,
hope you will not lay your misfortune to
our account. Snow drifts and the ther-
mometer sixteen below zero, are enemies
we can't readily overcome"
%"That's so" said the first speaker, with
broad emphasis, and a good natured for
giving smile. Fourteen hours in Chicago !'
The stentorian voice, sounding like a
trumpet, had aroused every sleeper from
eIysian dreams into which he might havs
fallen after his long, tedious, cold nights
travel. Every head was Injured, every eve
was fixed on the man who had broken the
silence. He was standing by the stove,
warming his boots-to have warmed his
feet through such mass Of COW hide and
sole leather, would have been q fourteen
hours operation. ; Six feet four or five
inches he stood in those boots, with shout
ders leased IN fur coat that looked more
like bearing up world, than you viii meet
ordinarily, in half a life time. His head
Webs.erian, his shaggy hair black as jet,
his whiskers to match, his dark, piercing
eye, and his jaws eternally moving, with
a rousing quid between them, while smile
Of good humor, notwithstanding his seem
ing impatience, attracted every ones atten-
tion. - i-i--e s.'tFz
@Fourteen hours in Chicager, eh?-
Wall, 1 can stand it if the rest can; if
twenty dollars won't carry me through, I'll
bory Of my friends. rvegot the things
that'I bring 'ern. That's 500 -. IT
And he thrust a hand little less in size
thana common spade, down into the cav
ernous depths of a broad-striped, fiashy
pair of pants, and brought up that great
hand, full as it could hold, of shining TWEEN
ty dollar gold pieces. =
"Don't yer think can stand these ere
Chicagers for one fourteen hours?"
: A nod of assent from three or four, and
e smile of curiosity from the rest, answer
ed bis questions in the affirmative.
'"You must have been in luck, stranger y
said an envious looking little man. "Y ou're
more than your share of gold" 80 q '''' :
81 have, Ell? Well i ruckon. not. l
come honestly by it. Thafs so. e And
there's them living who can remember this
child when he went round the p'rarries
trapping p'rary hens and the like, to get
him q nights lodging, or a pair of shoes,
to keep the massasangsrs from biting my
toes; I've hung myself up more mol, one
night in the timber, to keep out of the way
Of the wild varmints; best sleeping in the
world, In the crotch ola tree-top! Now, /
reckon you wouldn't believe it, but I've
gone all winter without shoe to my foot,
and lived on wild game, when i could
ketch it. That's SO >
"Didn't stunt your growth said voice.
"Not a bit of it. 1t brought me nm
right. These p'prarries are wonderful
roomy. / thought one spell would let
myself out entirely, but me and mother
held corcus, and decided that she was
getting old, and blind, like, it tux TOO
long, and cost too much to sew up the legs
Of my trousers, and so l put a. stop tojt,
and concluded that six foot five would do
for feller that couldn't affoard the expeu-
sive luxury Of a wife to make his breeches,
1t was only my love for my mother that
stopped my growth. IfI'd had On idea
of a sewing machine, there's no telling what
I might DONE" - -
"You have so many gold pieces in your