The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-20

in the night with nothtne on i'm.
Then be keeps still awhile ike he
was waiiin' and ifstenin' for.
train, you'd see him hold~his breath
fearin' he couidp't ketch the sound.
Pretty seon he speaks agin gently
like, aud ses
kin he see the light in time?'
IN he waits bit. Next he jumps
up in bed on his knees and screams
o9t st The top of his voice:
Sop her, Pard 2 Stop 29!'
Stranger, I've seen frightiul things
in my time, but never seen things
SO awful as that was. Pale n wild.
with the fever on i'm, that mere
baby was trying to make me hear,
and the wind howlin' and the rain
roarin' the way it was. And we'd
try to keep him still, and his moth
er would coax him, and I'd try to
keep him quiet, N he'd scream agin /:
'Culvert's gonei Stop her. Pard T
And I'd take him in my arms, n
he'd be all of 3 quiyer. Then it
seemed like he beerd whistle, for
he ses
sAn right He's BLOWN down
brakes
And puts i'm back in bed and he
lays still mint, like he was a lis
TENN, and ses ::
''He's reversin' of 90, he is! Ny
Pard-Pard is safe.'
Then he'd shuthis eyes and drop off
and smile in his sleep, like be was sat-
isffed. By and by he'd begin and go
all over it agin, and so, day after day,
alters the same. He seemed to heV il
in his mind all the time.
The Doctor, you know, him l was a
tellin' about, well, he stopped off that
night and staid with us the whole week
and nursed baby like it was his own.
N wen it was all over, 1 though it was
no more N right IN L ses to i'm, Doc
tor, can I pay you?' NO. ses he
Latham, you can't. His life saved
mine. N besides that, Latham n he
filed up like, besides that, Latham
I've got one jest his age. There aim t
nOthin' you kin give me but that little
curl there on his forehead So Mary
takes the scissors and cuts it off. He
kissed it, and put it in his pocket and
went away.
On the night of the break at DEVILS
Run, wen / got off the machine to go
and see what was the matter, I pulls
out my watch and it was IL O'Clock
and three minits. Some of the neigh
bors had come from around in the
mountains, m a minister from q vii
lage about fifteen miles off. I didn't
give no attention to nothin' for was
stunned like and didn't know how it
all was.
was slttin' In front of the house on
large stone, where Charley used to
sit and wait for me when ] was comm
by, and heerd whistle. And seed
train. 1t stopped near where / wass
The locomotive was No. %. The boys
had her dressed In mournin'. Bill
Walker was runin' her and Crazy was
Grim. There was three coaches filled
with the boys and their wives and
children. They was in their best
clothes, N when they came by where
was Eittin' they all knew it was little
Charley's place-the men took off their
hats and the women had their hand
kerchiefs to their faces. alters know
ed they was very fond of him, but 1t
seemed as though they hadlost an only
child. There was six little bJys, all the
the same size, and they took i'm up,
and we all followed up the side of the
mountain. 1t was a mild day, and the
sun was shinin' bright. We CROSSED
Devils Run, and came to piece of lev
cl SEOuuu WHOTO There was some large
pine trees. 1t was jest over the cliff, a
little ways from the road say hundred
feet, and in plain sight of where he
stood wavin' his lantern backwards
and forwards across the track when he
said: You and me is pards, isn't we P
After all, it was harder on Mary
than on me. In three months time ]
took her there, too,. l stayed on the
line while after that, but couldn't
never go back to my house agln, and
whenever 1 was goin' by and saw the
two heaps of fresh earth, it worked on
me so l couldn't stand it.
AS was teliin' sometimes think
I'd like to get back there and see the
place once more, bpt seems as if I was
ateerd. don't believe in ghosts, bni
L know If l was to run a train around
that curve in dark night I'd see my
little Charley wavin' his light as he
did that night when 1t cost him hi:
life