The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-18

DTOtDeT, SalU baron Mdftln, II think
you had better not.'
Here is a hint for our old friend the
clown in the pantonime. At the burning
OF provision store, the crowd helped them
selves freely. One man grasped a huge
cheese as his share of the luggage rising
up with it he found himself face to face
with five policemen, and with admirable
p''s nee of mind put the p!under into The
hcer's arms, styng "You had better
take care of that, policeman, or some one
will be walking off with it,"
Impudently cool as the darkey was he
must yield the palm for effrontery to the
Erie Railway guard whose interview with
Manager Fisk Is thus related in an Ameri-
can paper.
"You are conductor on the Erie, be-
lieve ?'
Yes, sir"
How long have you been on the road ?"
Fifteen years"
Worth some property, learn ?''
"Some."
''Iave a very fine house in Oswego? {?
Cost you some thirty, forty, or fifty thous-
aud dollars ?''
Yes, sir.''
"Some lit lie money invested in bonds,
am :old ?''
''Ses, sir"
'Own a farm near where you reside P''
eyes, sir.'
''Had nothing when you commenced as
conductor on the road p
Nothing to speak Of"
Made the properly since P'
"Yes, sir
"Been at work for no other parties ?''
''No, but have been saving money, and
invested 1t from time 10 time to good ad-
vantage
"Well, sir, what will you give TO settle :?
,ref ~
have acquired :his property from what you
have saved from your salary? You will
not deny that you have pocketed great
deal of money belonging TO the railway
at least fifty sixty thousand dollars !?
Now, sir, wha5 will you give 10 settle, aud
not be disgraced as you certainly will be if
trial is brought, and you are compelled
to give up the property you profess to own,
but which in reality belongs to the COM
pany?'
"Well, Mr.. Manager, | have not thought
of the matter. For several years | have
been running my train to the best of my
ability. Never looked at the matter in
this light before. Never thought was do
ing anything wrong. l have done nothing
more than other conductors tried to earn
my salary aud get it, and think I've sue
ceeded. 1 don't know that owe the COM
pany anything. If You think l do, why
there's little difference of opinion, and
dom: want any trouble over it. l have a
nice family, nice father and mother, rela-
tives all of good standing they would feel
bad to have rne arrested and charged with
dishonesty. 1t would kill my wife. She
has every conf, ence in me, and the idea
that L would take penny that did not be-
long to me would break her heart. / don:
care anything for the matter myself but
on account of my family and relatives, If
you won't say anything more about it. I'll
give you say-a dollar r'- Chambers Jour
nal.
n Touching Story IOMchingly Told.
In the year 1S-, as the mail train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bound west
to Cumberland, in charge of the late Cap
| tain George A. Rawlings, conductor, was
approaching Doe Guley tunnel the engine
struck and killed a COW belonging to the
widow of a watchman at that point who
lost his life i'm the service.
The accident soon brought TO the scene
quite number of the people living in The
| immediate neighboihood, and among them
the widow of the watchman aud her five
small children, Who we're weeping most
! piteousiy at their loss, and using the most
heart-rendng expressions. Rawlings. who
was proverbIal for his kindness of heart,
took up a subscription, the passengers and
train-men contributing. and he soon collect
ed over seventy dollars and handed it to
the widow.
With tears in her eyes she turned to him
and said "Gou will never regret this
kindness to the poor widow and her chill
dren, and it will come home to you some
day or other"
Time rolled on and the incident was
nearly forgotten, when one night Rawl lings
left Cumberland on his east bound trip in
terrible rain storm, and after passing
through Doe Gulley tunnel, his enginem IN
blew for brakes in sharp and quick blasts
indicating sudden and unexpected danger.
The train was brought to standstill
within fifty feet of an immense landslide
covering the track for distance of fifty
yards, close to which large bonfire had
been built, and standing within a few feet
of it the widow, with a blazing pine knot
in her hand, waving it and shouting :
''Where is the conductor? Where is the
conductor ?''
Rawlings soon appeared, and going up to
him she said II told you you never would
regret your kinoness to the poor lone widow
and her children. L heard the fail of rock
and earth in the cut, and knew you were
coming down aud | bull, fire to warn you
of the danger. God bless the man who
tnoue Int of the poor widow ana her children
when they were i'll trouble"
The scene can be better lima gined than
described.
This act of the :dow saved the lives of
the passengers and train-men, and, to this
day, Tommy Beckett" who ran the "Del-
aware" on The occasion, and who is still
running ON the Washington branch, ripe
in years, no doubt often thinks ofthe widow
with the blazing pine knot, who signalled
him at Doe 9ulley tunnel
THE earth, per day. moves !. .601, 300 miles
in it's orb. SO. 745 per hour. and u IL miles