Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-04
a Close Shave.

a Close Shave.
u reckon you've hearn tell Of
y pI o.Nlei' who was ,sassinated down at
bloomington the other night?'' re.
marked Jack Reynolds to a reporter on
saturday. The latter Acknowledged that he
neaio good deal, lately, about the man
Ielerfeo to. Jack REYNOLDS does the
s'ohlng on one Of the largest locomotives
on the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
Just wait till toss a couple OF show
eltuls, 'casse times nearly IN and wa,n
be OFT soon, and I'll tell YOU semefhin,
about Jim,' said the fireman. as he
pitched some chunks of coal into the
roaring furnace. "They don't make bet
Ter engineers he continued, ethan what
JIM o'Neil was. You see, you folks that
rae back there in them fine coaches. and
play poker, AMI read the newspapers ana
only look ont when a halt is made and
commence e,1a a: readln' and playm' again when
roar ana and rattle: you folks, L say.
qohs Know what danger is. No, sir.
just you come ahead here and stand
! where jim O'Neil stood for eighteen
years, and Eli bet your back will ralse
up sometimes. But jim didn't mind If
much. He was the coolest and most
praVest man what ever see in nv life,
He acted all the while Just like ne was
ready to die at any minute. And do Won
KNOW, he would take to his engine lust
iihe man to a woman. He would pet
,aeI' ana say sweet, sympathi2in' things
20 her. When she was leanin' out her
leVei best, runnin' may be forty miles an
noun, jan would look her all over kind.
OF affcctlonately and say to himself.with
shake OF the head, She ain'twell to -day:I
cen know what ais her, but she amt
teelin' just rigAt'n
JACK opened the furnace door again
aad dropped in some fresh fuel on the
glowing Goals.
on see, he continued, Jim and me
run an engine toe ether five years, lust as
me.and my boss here (pointing to the en-
gineer who had that moment stepped into
the cab) are doing now. He took me on
When was green hand, and in all the
years we stuck together he never smoke a
cross word to me, and if he'd been a mind
to he might have pitched me out of the
window any time, for he was powerful
man. I'm got used to runnln' now. and
don ever bother my head about what's
gen' to happen: but when Jim O. Mel
1lfst took me on | was awful scary.
and often wished was one of them far.
mers what we sax holdlu' the pillow in the
fields as we passed"
W Mel had great many narrow es-
capes, did he not2" interrupted the report
e2
You are right he had replied Jack
land the half Of them amt been told
about IN the wspapers jim always,
knoW'd when anything was eon' to,
happen. Once he had nine cars and BIO
lot OF people, ard he was runnin' to make.
ap lost time. It was just little afore
dark, and, taken his eye from off the
track, Jim turned to me, and saws he.
There's trouble ahead; l feel it in NV
bones AT first | kinder suspected that
ne was tryin' to frighten rae, but after q.
DIT he said to me: / wish / could look
round the big curve and see if tie
bridge is Ill right That scared me
morn ever. ] noticed that jim had his
eye set right down on the rail, but it was.
gettln, SO dark that ne couldn't see far
Inc old locomotive was putin in her
pest hicks, and presently we shot in
through the deep cut and out on the high
MIN that ran to the bridge As we made
the curve at the mouth of the cut. RIGHT
there IN fsont of US, and not more'n two
hundred feet away, was four horses what
was rnnnin' their best down the grade
toward the bridge. Felt my heart tbnmp
agln the roof of my mouth.
Ii Jlla hadn t looked SO cool, guess ia
have tossed mysels right through the
but ! thought I'd stay as long
as jim did. He took in the chance at a
glance. He know'a il them horses ever
got to that bridge they'd tunble down
twlSt the stringers, and when we struck
EN- we'd jump the track, and 90 through
The bridge into tie river, and God only
Knows whether anybody of them hundreds
of people would nave lived to tell what
M tellin' now. SO, quick as a iash-for
"lsh q locomotive runnin' forty miles an
Tour you must do your fgurin' in a
lurrry--.lim slapped on all the steam.
Wy God. how she shot. She nearly
;umped out from under me. In three
econds the old locomotive just picked up
hat bunch of beasts and tossed them
Town the banks. They didn't any of 'em
i've to see the hind car pass by 'em.
NV han ray heart dropped back to its
place" added Jack, Il ventured to say tc,
0 jim, That was q close shave, wasn't
t. bnt Jim never took lis eye from the
rack, and never said yes or no; ana,
hough him and me run together for years
nd years, he never once spoke of how
e scooped them critters into the disch,
nd saved God only knows how n.any
ives. "-Nuscatiae Tribune.
Pat a tablespoonful Of sulphur in the
Is est as soon as hens or turkeys are set.