The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-11-29
NUMBER "A.

He sick lest week, afIu Wauarriu-
and wild from first TO last. I stayed VITA
i'm all the time. for l hadn't wits euuugh
left to handle n machine, and the hoys Seiit
word got 10 bother myself abOut business,
N they'd see me through. So between 'eIn
they did my duty ard No. ~ went up and
down in her reg lar runs Jest rs if I vas at
The lever myself Nou know 1 was \ teliin'
about the water tank near the hUnse. Il
didn't use to Ire used much, hut that week
seemed though there wasn't a train
either way, that didn't get ont o. water just
there and some of 'em wonlG come over To-
see about .he boy. And their wives kent
seudiu' nice ;hinEs-aud they was al! poor
people, too. Nou see. somehow IL travelled
about fast what little Pard ha6 done s;opVin
the train that night, n he sich mite If y
child. An il got into the newspapers, aud
the president 0t fhe roai came up To see 'im
and all that. But he Just went on from luy
10 day. for death struck i'm from the irsJ
moment as he stood there iu the winter rain.
From his talking when lac was driirious
found ont pretty muCh all how IL WAS.
l reckon lac heard the storm in his sleep ana
the TOarin' of the rnn that set EN- 10 dream
in. Of course he knew IL was my night. 20
l had often tDld 'iu what had place it was
and " hat 10 do if anythinE happened--uever
thinking that he'd go TO doiu' of 10 hisseif
But he gifts mp in his sleep, takes his lantern
and goes ont to meet me. I'd be sitin'
there watchiu' of i'm 10y his bed, ~ he'd be-
gin first, Jest kind o. mutterin', aud I'd hear
! him say, sCfIly like, as il he were talking 10
hisself
"ParI due At the run in twenty minits. I
ken Git there in time"
'Peared like IL was all goin' through his
mind agln aud he WAS dom over jest what
/ he did that night. We Could tell wen he
| got to The place where The ROAD broke for
! he Ses, kin 1 git over ON that log Ell /
/ don't my pa Il II he killed
Then seemed Is though be was goin' down
! 10 the curve where We found him. An he'd
/ shiver like, as if the cold rain was strikin'
! i'm.
! You see We could mostly foiIer i'm by
watchin i'm and ketchn' what he said
/ Ouct or twict he shook right hard, and his
teeth Chatrerei. We Ihouglt 81 was the cold
/ he feelin' aCiu As he felt II ont there in
The night with norhiu' on i'm. Then h8
| keeps still awhile like he was \ watin aud
! lis1enin' tor the train, and -on'd s-e him
! hold his breath fearin' he cDuldu'' kerch the
sound. Pretty soon be speaks agin. gently
| like and ses
/ kin he see the light In time 90
] y he waits bit. Next he jumps right
/ up la bed on his knees and screams out AZ
/ the top his voice.
! stop her. pard Stop 20 -
/ Stranger, I've seen frightened tbingshin
| my time, but never see anything 50 awful
4 a. that was. Pale and wild, with the fever
1 on IN, that mere baby tryin' 10 make
I me hear, and the wind huwlin' and the train
the way it was. An we'd try To keep i'm
still, II his mother wOuld coax him, aud / Il
I try TO quiet him n he'd scream agin:
"Culvert's gonei Stop her. pard -
! An I'd take i'm in my arms N he'd he all
! OF a culver. Then 10 seemed ike be heeTu
/ me whistle. for he ses;
/ 'All right, he's BLOWN brakes"
/ Au' puts i'm hack In bed and he lays
! still mint like he n listeuin' and s,.s
/ Hes a reversin OF ~ he Is Ny pard--
/ pard 5 safe
TLen bel shut his mouth and drop of.
| and smile i'm his sleep like Ee Sas satisfied.
! By-ard-hy he'd begin and 90 all over II again
/ and 81, day after day, alters the same. He
. seemed 10 hev il i'm his mind all the time.
The doctor, you know, him 1 was p fell.u'
1 about; wei, he stopped OF that night and
Z stayed with Us the whole week aud uurst-l
baby like he was his own. y when it was
all over thought ii was uo mure'n right, "a
Z seS TO i'm, Doctor = can ! pay you -
1 ''Nu! - ses lac, Latham you can't His life
saved mine. y besides that Latham "a
be filled mp like "hesides ;hal Latham, I'Nt
got one jest his age. There ain't uothiu'
yuu kin give the but that little curi there nu
his forehead" So Mary takes the scissors
aud cuts il off. lie kissed IL, IA put il in
his packet, IA went awav.
On the night of the break Al DEVILS Ran,
wen | got OF the machine 10 gu and see W hat
was the matter, ] pulls uui my watch and II
was twelve o'clock aud three minis. II Was
exactly n week after that l took out INV
watch and il was twelve o'clock aud three
miuits. Some of the neighbors had. cnne
from around in the mountains, ~ a minister
from village ahout fifteen miles OF. I
didn't give uO attention 20 uoihiu', for was
I stunned lie and didn't know how ~ all was.
I a settiu' in front of the house on =
I large stCue, where Charley used tu SIT aud
wait for me wen / was comm by. aud
heeTd whistle. An see a train. II stop
I ped near where was The locomotive WAS
4 No. %. The boys had her dressed in mourn
I in. Bill Walker WAS ruuuiu' her and Crazy
{ Was firm. There was hrt.e COACHES filed
with the boys aud Their wives aud children.
I They was in Ihelr best clothes, IA when they
came by where 1 was sittiu'--1hey all knew
IL was little Charley's plac+--ths men took
. of their hats AID the women had their
! kerr hIf.fs i
kuowed they very fond of him. hut u
seemed as though they had lost an only child.
There six little boys all the same size,
aud they tUUk i'm NJ, and we all fUiluruu up
the side OF the mountain. l. was a mi "A
day, aud the sun was Shiuin' bright. We
crossed DEVILS Run aud raTne to a place Of
! level ground whsre there was some large
pine trees. II WAS Just over the ci1r, little
, / ways from the road, sny a hundred feet, aud
Z in plain light of where hr stood wavin' his
lantern backwards aud forwards slowly
( across the track wen he said, you aud me
is pards isn't 90
After all, il was harder on Mary than on
ine. Ia three months time I took her there
tCo. / stayed on the line while after that,
but conldn't never % hack TO INV house
! 3 agin, and whenever / VA g''iu' by and saw
8 those two heads Of fresh earth IL worked on
, me so I couldn't stand g.
, As vas irlliu'. I'd sometimes think Ia
like TO 20 hack there AMI see BE- place Once
more, but seems a. :! atrtrd. ! don &
believe iu ghnSfs. bu' know if was 10 run
a train arouua thar curve ON - dark night
I'd see my little Charley waving his light
as he did that uighi whru IL cosI bim bis
/, ife.-ChTistiuH Citioa.
--
WISDOM N SOLID CHUSKs --rruth IL
! sed to be stranger thau hckshun,-it IL, 10
: most phOlks.
. If yu undertake - hire a man 20 be honest,
vu vii hav 10 Taizs his wages every morn-
ing, and watch him lre.iphnG Uinss besides.
= I hav finally cum tu Ihe kunklushun that
4 If kant prove "A thing without betting 5
dollars on il. the Thing hstR got a dredphul
weak Spot snmw hare.
| The reputashum that = man gifts from hiz
5 | ancestors often wants AZ much altering 20
e ii him az their old clothes would.-lt ia
| truly Thus
!. Yuug nou, set doSu, and keep stiil you
:. / will have plenty ov chances vel - make a
, | phnul ov yourself before you die
The things that kant provei beleave the
" IN lsi heleave that one apple u sour. and
| auoihei oue sweet, hut viii Civ emmy high
e. / ly ediikated man span oy matched nlnlss
q who will tell me what makes thea So