The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-08-26

she'd offered It,
After that my fireman run the train
mostly, while lay In the grass under
the trees an'heard her singin about her
work, once in while comm to the
door to give me a pleasant word. OF
course I'd "a got the grand bounce if
the thing had got to heal quarters; but
my tirem n liked to learn, an as long
as he didn't find no fault at his double
work 1t want no one else's funeral. So
the thing lasted two weeks such a soft
job couldn't run long-an' then the
bottom fell out.
" But Mary an me had come to be
right smart fiends by that time an
when was put on the passenger I
blOwed a signal jest before ! come to
the house, an she'd stand in the door
an swing her sunbonnet at me as we
passed
or course you all know that most
o. the Western roads was built on a
bogus plan. The farmers along the
proposed line was persuaded to give
mortgages on their farms, to be used as
collateral to borrow money on, the rail-
road companies guaranteein' to pay the
Interest on the mortgages and pay the
farmers handsome dividends on the
stock they took in exchange for the
mortgages, SOS IL 'u'd be all in pocket
with them, an never cost EN- a cent.
All went lovely until the mortgages
fell due. Then the companies bursted;
the stock want worth cuss an the
farmers had to clear off their nartgages
themselves, or get kicked out o. house
and home. 'Twa'nt mOre'n human ma
tur' that they should rile at that an
fur while they pulled up tracks aud
dumped trains into the ditch kinder
promiscuOus, you bet !
Wal, az the fall passed, the even
in's got shorter, until l didn't get to
Mary's house until dark. Then she
used to stand in the open doorway, with
the light behind her, or, when 1t storm
ed, at windpr.
Zone night l pulled out dead ag'in q
tearin' north w.ster. 1t was blacker'n
the inside of stone ink. bottle, out, an
the rain lashed agn' the cab winder
SOS l couldn't see through the glass,
anyway.
Just by Mary's house there was
quite down-erade, an at the end o.
that grade curve round the face of a
bluff, with thirty foot fall on the out
side of ia mighty nasty place to git
ketchrd, ole hoss, or I'm a liari l
thought about it before got thar; but
l says to myself. says 1.
"a man that's horn In ho brno .u
never cit drownedr'
'So / nnshed ahpod os nsu,, >.
",Just before comin In tho nou,o,.h
farm blowed NV signal an, stann..s
back ont o. the cab tn see the Ii,bt ~ tbo
wirder. The trees was i,st ,o.a,o
lashin' an tossio'. as copid see hv tha
flashes o. lightujn': but thar wa'n,t M
light 0
II was a.goin' to stem bact into tha
cab. MIGHTY di.sannointed cona;So-in,
IL was sI,ch Ia,,tIs Tho, ,,,i,a.' %
came something throngh the cah winaar
By a fash of liGbnin' Ic,nyht a oIi,nnso
of a woman standin' beside the trarL
bareheadpd. an with her hair on, oIo,s
BLOWN wild. an and bsard a oh.;,i
voice scream
Can / CAM Can %
GA glance showed mo q fromoo 49,
lantern roIIin' nm the cah a. ~ II,
vas enouvh. knnwsd !, ,non.. n"'
ger, ""N
"To whistle fnr hrakss uLo MAD j..
reverse tho levsr-to thro,. 10, u ,%u..To
wide-.to sand the tract diSn., @ ost.o ,ano
no time at ALI An, tSsn u" H",, 'aae
On the stanS an, Io,,tad .haoS s"uk r oue
fireman was str.inin' tha % tanaor mr',o S my
to the last notch ono
" 1t seemed an ACE befo,a oh. ho,rn
,o sIaoL M o"o oesuu
"n WITH snr couie W
o'"' '.'" 'he hoso inb piioC was
"iInii 'eh ieet ol as ueV'lSn a devise
as you ever seen. Half way round the
curve, an IN the very worst place, q
crosspiece was spiked to the rail, anon
this was an incline, p'inting' our way.
fur the pilot To run nm IN
"I reckon thar uas eoma aL,.o ,ooo,
when the nassanoaro niIad GO - 10
ooroY,, go, thot ,ho,F - 80
Ton saa, a, L;n,do,n @ usa "'''''
o.,,,,. ~ ,,,,HT 60 Sono. oio
'no ~" i"uuu +" oIs 'h u'he 10
sup heI u'uh answer MN harya
word but, 1umpin' on that engine
aoain laft tha hovs I'm ran,ova .nn,h
~S""' WV ''u oJ0 w ivWo'o Sue oo-
OBSTRUCTION while l backed that train to
the Inob ,uNr,k farm
found her beside the track. lest