The Brookhaven leader., 1883-04-19

plication to be placed in charge of q
train on another division Of the road,
said newspaper man TO Conductor
I've Rumsey. The otherevening. The boys
II say It is too lively for you up around
Waupun. How Is it?'
B,e mo, SIR" says Rumsey, with a
~ smad look on his face '.It Is all lie.
shall stay on that road as long as
they want me; and you fellows want
TO have your passes with you when you
strike my train, or you have to put up.
The boys all have to come down and
see me with passes or tickets or money,
and don't You make no mistake You
want your thick-soled shoes on, or you
= ! get corns:p
.'But what was il about some fellow
chasing you out of the coach into the
baggage car, and you locking the door
Z. and not coming out till the man got of.
~ ANY truth in that?'' said the newspaper
man, as he took cigar out of Rumsey's
vest pocket, and lit it. -
"Well, you haint got no gall, either.
What YOU want is to go into q slaughter
house somewhere and get some gall,
and he looked down at his empty cigar
pocket NAV, there didn't anybody
scare me. The boys tell everything on
me, because l am good-natured, and
don't kick. 1t is because am not pick
ing a fight all the time. l am no fighter,
and had rather stop train and build
track around q man Jnab wants 10
fight, than to whip him. Some of these
sheriffs and constabes that travel
around after prisoners, or take them to
Waupun, think conductor is regular
deputy sheriff. am no Pinkerton The
other day. a big husky fellow opened his
coat and showed star on his vest as
big as the ones these Milwaukee alder
= men wear, and said to me: / want you
to help me up the road here piece. /
expect couple of horse-thieves to get
on, and they may be too much for me-
told him hadn't lost any horSe-thief.
and when the fuss commenced he could
find me turning a back summersault of
the hind end of the train. S'pose am
going to pull sand-baggers and horse
"a thieves for eighty dollars month, and
have bullets shot in my stomach Not
much. A sherfffrom Nebraska wanted
me TO lay. off one day and go to Ran
dolph and help him arrest Polk Wells
and his gang, two years ago. You re-
E2s member how everybody got shot full of
holes that time. 'Revolvers Just laid
right down on the floor and went off |
themselves. Not any Polk Wells busi- I
for me. Some of these sheriffs |
that take prisoners to Waupun think a
conductor is going to sit right down and
80 watch prisoners all the way A fellow
E wanted me to hold big prze-fghter
&C. he was taking to Waupun, with hand
- cuffs on, while he went out at Horizon
= and got drink told MIN guessed |
Fe not much Mary Ann, and he said l
didn' t have any sand. Well have got
Just enough to run my business and col |
e., iect my fares and if / want any sand /
bagging viii quit railrpading and run
& for constable. Why, they wanted me to
g. . stop train once and go with them to a
barn about mile away from the track |
~. and hunt for some prisoners that es
-s-. capped from the penitentiary. Did go?
WALL have
with me, but if recollect right, didn't
go. Take me for a detective?"
Then YOU rather incline to quiet I
life. and had rather get along without
any FUSS said the newspaper man, as
he asked Rumsey for a match to light
the cigar. I
Match. wen guess better light
it for you, and pay you for smoking it.
o. wait tilh catch you on my train
without your pass, and will make up
li., cigars and matches, lifting you off the
-ra platform with leather Yes, sir, be-
lieve the ugliest man that ever got on a |
train can be made peaceabe by kind
ness. | had a man my train one
night going up, that always gets drunk
on purpose for row. He has cleaned .
out lots of trains, and see he was in |
for a row. He looked as though he had |
aale'f a hot box when he saw me come in the .
door, and grated his teeth. He was
to fight to the next station, where he
lived, and get off without paying. |
went up to him, and sat down beside |
him, and asked him if he had had |
good time to-day, and then / pulled /
out some picture cards that l got |
in store here in Milwaukee, and said. |
...r ~ Here, Pat take these pictures to your !
little girl at home, and tell her, as she |
meets you at the door and throws her |
ysrs.g arms around your neck, and kisses you
and says she is glad you come home |
sober, and that she loves you, and that
You are the dearest papa In the world |
tell her that old Rumsey sent them to
her with kiss Well you wouldn't /
% $50 believe it, but before got half through
talking about the little girl, the big
tears came to his eyes, and rolled down
his red face, and he took them, and
thanked me in choking voice, and
said, as he pulled out a five-dollar bill:
Take my fare out of this, Rumsey, and
God bless you' I'll betthat rough fell
lows heart was touched, because when
he got off at the next station he was
sober, and was wiping his eyes on his
coat sleeve, and he pointed right straight
for home. O, aman can get in his work
on railroad train, and never kill
man. if he wants to. Fought to have |
been sister of charity instead of con-
ductOr, | know that, but now am into
it am going to stick. ."-Peck's Sum-
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