The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-01-04

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4 Il e4E were smoking one pight
Befr9 the5 bota sticking
g;cf32rooln grate.Ehen one man
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|oaif hare alYays, theugiIt Rda6ke
To BE q rahroaa condactorA Afor q
while at Ieast.o
The cd 551dueto4 shifeA, and
knock the ashes oaahis cigar. .sir
..BeI' agid Is, ! Rsiisgsthat'
almost every one has Lad that feel
ing at one tine or Shoth6r. TlIere.
IS s5thetEae e fasci6 6atsigftoha sober.
business nsan iA thsjdea ofrdoiRg
-lrasiness aHd esssnissg y-oar lisingStl
thirty miles an h0Hs and the spiee
Of danger that you may at any mo
,nent<be sent to king come By
lightning express, fsaJJ JJast7 vague
enough nor 20 LIZ Satcl DQt 20 al
tract. Bat to a conductor st. pro
saSo business enough. So it is to
engineers and brakeman Don't
you remember that at the inquest
held over thsForwalk S1fidge acci-
dent it was shown that the, epgi-
peeEEas n the habit eo6 openng
everything ana then Eresding a
hewgpaper ITe was neglectfng Bis
business, course; lat itssho6s
whathabi fwilfj de- 'teaI make a
reading room Of al express engine.
"Bailroad men tearri tl5e lesson Of
punctuaiity very thoropg 1T
woatflo 70 be. late, g. tRe train
Won't start on time, aud then an
awfaleroutsi5z Certain. enestiae I
was 1t AIbgag. alfas t6as afternoon
the Hudson -Rigers Boston and Cen
trias trains aiiilgtartea 4tere O'clock.
Well, the copapc6ofs dfebe4aains,
and the e5gineers. too, vest down
the riyer On a5sropelleg@t the Lulia,
think sheasbs called. There
wssalb & conductor at tic Gepet to
fake any oaesplace, and the sade
was falIiug.=Riliiams.a spleEdid,
great big fe,IoW, became, desperate,
Jumped ihto@the riyes. putz his
shoulders under the stern, where
. pore lgr l84 84q e.slsht eR a mud
bank, and as the boat was a nine
cas poveri 6alFs rand he & perfect
/ Hercules, he actually lifted her off,
apd}veF artFed fh A4l5as5 5eet in
7 time-onTy WILLIAMS had to run to
Syracuse. .RHh his vet {l6lhes on.
cts aqueer existence, too, run
ming day after day through q TOT OF
! littIe places that youslon't take any
t-inte9est an, or know anything about,
/ moro than Stat the Stations. are call
ed stations. Itis not such a dan
! ec4oas 4ife, either. Aecident ihsur-
aHce compauies don't rate passen-
/ ger conductors very high, but if
youeyer sgeptste feel hew helpless a
.ereat tare son are ia the, hands Of the
Almighty just get oman express
engine, and get the eEgincerto open
everything onsavdark night. gItris
bposia%ely awral to see s. slg head
/ light boring into the darkness, and
to think that between you and in
staqt death Il IS ealy the Glance
Of the two pieces of iron you're
travelling on being continuous end
3.clea1s that # somebody had just
/ priced up a raid since the last train
went over, or anchored somethina 2
on the track, your friends won't
Know So8EBody@hen tho cal'eaer' s
/ jury call them as witnesses to youi
Identity. 90 y ''''
That's the wayrT felt the first tipe
4 tried il but the ,ebgaieeG was
smoking g pipe, and the fireman wa;
whistiing jim along J6sey.'
When ,ascpnducter runs . train
out OF town apd. runs another IL
again the same lay, it isn't such s
gaser hfe as whep he ran2 8 & trair
out one day and IL the next Thcr
he lives two lives. One night he il
q niarrieaomaa ct ono plaee5 tht
ne-,t night heis q bach6l6r atanoth
er place, and the nexthight s mar
ried man again and SO on, see-saw.
There isla kind ofadaeer Feeling
or responsibility, having three o.
four hundred livesin Youf keeping
Bat then there's TIE Hules. If yo'
keep 70 them, if. anything happens
it isn't your fault. W hea YOU ar,
cut al time and have to w2iG goi
badrered with questions. 4 for
eig1er once told me that one or TIA,
most sarprisin8 thiRgs thafhe iaC
seeniu America was thsres pect &
1 c9ndustorss ahd the say tle s wer'
obeyed by passengers. But pas
sengers viii ask questions when yol
are waiting and It's provoking
One day I was out of time, and raj
OF on s. switch to wait for either tn
down train OF. q telegram-to come
on BY snd by a sp0ppeus ma
comes to me as I was sitting on
fence. ss.se
Mr. Conductor" said he, "wha
are verwaittRg tory Ia -
aFoe ths duEn tshia14We are np
of time. There's a single trael
here and SIC. has, the right ef th'
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way"
But suppose the down train i
behind too2
"Then I'll get a telegram
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