Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26

and told Nell as how I'd got to 90. She
took on vsfy queer IKE aud seemed dis
tressed To lave me away, though she
never acted like that before.
|. Its an awful night, Bob, SAYS she,
can't they send some one else? 1 don't
Ike to have YOU CO. y - -
Nonsense says /, the storm
won't hurt me. and I'll be back again
tomorrow. The Super's promised To
80 the square thing, and it will come
out ali right f'ftlf, e'
f'She seemcda little reass1rcd, and I
got ont my great coat and muller, and
IN em j prepared 10 start out ~
''Well. Bob SAYS my wife If YOU
must go, why YOU must. hut. she
added, thoughtfully, and there was
the queercst look passed over her fare
be careful OF that Faukcnstcin.
trestle.'
81 scarcely heard what she said. but
bidding her goodbye was soon on ms
way to the rOund-house. IL was a wild
night and no mistake; seems To me I
have never seen il blow harder or snow
faster. On q or twice had to- turn nv
back TO the blast to keep from blowin'
over. Well. ! was soon ON board nv
machine. and backing into the station.
hitched on To two cars which were To
make mp the traiu As ten o'clock APP
preached the directors began to arrive,
pomppus looking mon. with plenty of
money and feeling all their importance.
Them feller-. says j TO ny.elf. feel
their steam pretty well. I don't sup
pose they'd look at an engineer
Dan smith, my fireman, was on the
watch for the eOnduotOr's signal. and
when the clock struck ten we got the
swing Of the lantern and of we started
I've seen some pretty bad nights,
but that one was the worst I ever re-
member. The storm tonight is hard
enough. but il don't bcLin tu blow ~ il
did then. Why. cVery now and then
we would get blast fiat would make
the whole machine trcmblc. and n the
country round Portland is pretty level,
We TOOK the full force of the wind As
we cot further miami, il WASH so bad,
anil by The TIM We were forty miles
out. II ha,l turned 10 summers gale
anti wils- pouring torrents. ID. .. ~
''And nOny comes the singular part
of the story. We had the right 81
way, and our dispatcher wa. To- keep
the whole zap to Fabyan's open for US,
my insi auctions bcins ~ stop only AT
North Conway for water. 50 | .rave
her tlr throttle. and NJ bowlcd alonE
nj good rate OF speed. making. per-
haps, thirty or thirty-live miles an
hour. As we went whistling through
Sehago Lake It 1tion | had kind of
feeling come over me that there was
Something wTOng. didn't notice it mt
first, but every now and then it would
como back TO mr that all was not rs it
should 10, yet coIlln't think of any
thing that wasn't right. alters eN-
anime my machine before | start, give
her good oihn', luoN we'll Co the bolts
and parallel rods. try the levers and
sucll, and sol knew when we left Port
land old 80 was in perfect workin'
trim \ ct thcfeclin' grew on me I'M
Oil it was steady thing. I tried to
-shake-it OFT. hut itwan't no use = felt
IL in my bones that SOmcthin' was up.
Nov yo6igcnthmnn win hdch at
me for being n Tool, and ] DON'T lame
yer, for we was a-goin along all right,
everything from the watcr-gaugc To the
cylinders was. q workin' in good time,
aud i knew that IL was only my imagin-
alton ma. 10 tell the truth began to
fCil uneasy. I had been an engineer
Tor ten years, aud bad been through
some prrty tough sUrapcs without
BLOWN for grapes, and the boys all
said rs how 1 hail good deal of pluck.
Now began 10 lose all confidence.
Bob. said To myself. this won't
do. You re- gettin' nervous, and all for
V,NLtuff l.. L.
pcrstitiouS ~ your time of life. Brace
upi' -.Il .--.. .~.t.iTJ
"Twan't no use. however. could
hcv' stood up in court and sworn that
there was Il kink somewhere. Well,
meanwhile we was sliding along. and
pretty soon reached North Conway,
where we was to givc the machine a
drink. Dan says to my fire
man, there's somc.hin'' out Of the
way with this machine, and l don't
know what il is
"'What makes you think SOP said
Dan.
-'''G cant toll. / replied. she works
all right; but feel il in my bones
" Guess your thinkin' OF your wife,
returned Dan, with laugh.
"But while we were wpttin' In the
water took lantern and went round
thu engine. looked at every part of
her. raped thc bars, knocked the
wheels, tried her at every point, aud
couldh't find hothin'.
"And tried to think no more about
it. but the feeling wa there all the
same, apd 10 ilic lest 4 could Uwasa' t
able ~ thruw il oil DWELL. we had Tot
n pretty good distance in the mountains.
nud with that light load 80 didn't
make nothin' Of the up grades.
Perhaps. gentlemen, YOU have never
been through the hills in winter. It's