Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1883-09-20
ouTRussNe DEATH.
How 1t Feels to be MhirIed Along at q
Mile Minute.
Philadelphia Times

PhilAdelphia Times
.sThink of man getting seasick
from riding on locomotive engine, %
said Counselor Farley. who last week
shot down from Philadelphia to At
lantic City at the rate of more than
mile a minute to reach the bedside
of his dying child. "'Sea sickness
is, of course, not the term to apply
to the disorder, but that expresses it
better than any other name that ! can
think of. My ride created the same
feeling of wretchedness that few
hours on the ocean always gives me,
only instead of its being caused by
the rolling Of vessel it was brought
on by the pitching and tossing of the
locomotive.
II received telegram telling me
Of my childs condition about two in
the afternoon. Every moment after
that seemed an hour. 1 realized how
extreme was the danger, for I had
been up several nights with the little
one. l engaged special conveyance
at once. There was nothing but
locomotive, and sat in it with the
engineer. Dispatches were sent
ahead ordering all regular trains to
run for sidings, and remain until the
engine passed. We were about q
minute getting out of the built-up
portion of Camden. Then we flew,
but no speed could be too fast for
me. As we rushed along we enyel-
oped ourselves in a cloud of dust
that was so thick at times that could
not see half q dozen yards ahead.
The whistle screamed a note of warn
ing almost every second. Indeed it
seemed to my excited mind that it
was all one wild shrek, extending
from the Delaware to the sea. After
we had gone few miles the engine
began to pitch and toss, and as the
speed increased the motion grew more
violent. Now we seemed to drop
into gulf, then to rear into the air,
and. again, as quick as thought, to
be in the act of leaping into a creek.
The trees and fields and houses were
like long, black, waving streak. 1
began to feel faint and dizzy, and If
it had not been for the rushing wind
l fear must have swooned in that
terrible cab. The engineer was per-
fectly cool. He afterwards declared
that never before had he gone at so
high rate of speed for so great a
distance. l told him of my feeling
of sickness. Yes he said, L have
heard old railroad men tell how pas
sengers had been made seasick by
fast riding, but l never saw it before
When we struck the meadows and L
got Whit ofsalt air braced u.b a
bit, but felt queer anu unsscs1y on
my legs even after we had reached
the station and 1 had alighted. 1
felt as if 1 had just come in from a
rough sea voyage. But l was i'm
time. L once more saw the light of
my child's eyes, fading fast, indeed,
but still instinct with life, and in that
everything else was forgotten.
An Honest Bootblack.
Last evening gentleman, who
gave his name as Harrison, of Free
port, ILL.,, was hurrying down Broad
way, at about 5 o'clock, carrying a
valise, and when on the Canal-street
crossing large well-flled envelope
fell from his coat. A lame bootblack
named Daniel Mccarthy, better
known in the neighborhood as
''Limping Dan," picked it up, and
running as best he could after the
loser, cried: Say, Mister?" The
man glanced in the direction of the
call, and seeing the boys blacking
kit, gruffiy said: II don't want a
shine The boy, however, exerted
himself, and stopping in front of the
man, held up the envelope, saying
sinister, you dropped this. Rec
ognizing his property, a change i'm
mediately spread over his counten-
ance as he gazed upon the shivcring
cripple before him and asked his
name. He then took him to cloth
ting-house near by aud paid for coat
and vest for the boy, after which he
handed the grateful boy a twenty.
dollar bill, saying: "My boy, that
envel ope contained large amount
of money. When come TO the city
lagain shall he glad to see yen
To the officer he said he had SOLD
some property on Long Island ant
that the envelope contained the pro
ceeds-sl 500 in checks and 5000 il
bilss-khicii he had just drawn fron
a bank, and in his haste to get q
Jersey City, where he was to take th'
train, he must have placed the envel.
ope between his inside coat and over
coat instead of in his pocket.
Pure Sympathy for the Duck.
"What have you got for sifnner.'
inquired disgusted drummer of
waiter at one of the hotels the othe
day. IN the hearing of reporter
{The drummer had been in the tow