The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-14
"Ccrne Rcme Tomorrow Iapa.

"Ccme Ecme Tomorrow Fape.
Pail ,!,z.n iiEoai conductors, ruu
Mug rom Cilsrent roads, ali the best o
friend, met ia g cigar store one dag las
week, and smclSei and talked and jokeC
each d, So ayOui owning the various road
they can run on knocking down" fares
| S'wha, k;ug I'd with tie directors, etc
They are great men to "cod" each other as
the saying j., and ore stylish conductor
spoke aSout his diamonds, and finally got
sight CT LITTLE worn and dilapidated charm
on his watch chain, little tortoise shell
locket, with marks CIT into ii all over. The
talking conductor said:
"Oh, boys, look at him. A diamond as
big as paper weight, two hundred dol
lar watch and hundred chain, and a
dirty, ricke.', worn out. miserable locket
worth ten GEMS. The brotherhood of rail
road conductors ought 10 bounce him out
of The asset ,tinn."
The boys ali Joined in and said il was a
shame 10 wear such thing; some pro-
posed raising purse to get him a new one,
one of the boys took held Of the miserable
little charm and pull d il OFT. The slyli.h
conductor stepped back with fore, d sm.ls,
and took the charm in hand tendeTlv and
seemed to cartSs ~, and he tried to change
the subject, but the boys would not allow
it, when be said:
"Boys, that is more vAiU 4bie 20 me than
my diamond stud, my wa.ch or my posi-
ton. l would not part with it. for al Of
Alex. Milcheli's veal h. | would not erase
one OF Jse little dents in the charm TO
save my right arm. / cOnldn't ID ii, boys
"Oh, | know what's the mst'e-," said me
talking conductor, as he punched the s;yl-
ism conductor In the ribs with his lhuu b,
"some girl gave il TO him. / krOw how it
is A girl made NE presen; on'e Of a
grand bounce, and i carr cd the marks If il
Tor years. Old story, here, carries the COW
horn charm, with the notches in rs re-
minder of the old love. Every notch repre-
sents kiss, eh, you old FISCAL"
The stylish conductor turned away from
the boys, tansibly TO light his cigar, but
really to hide a t ar that was trying TO
.stesl ride IN the trucks Of his eye h t::nl
He took his handkerchi and wiped his
eye, and said something about cinder in
il, and then turned to the boys and said
Fellows, don't want you TO think am
too soft, and as the most of you have chill
dieD, I guess you won't think so If tell
you about this cheap little affair. used
to wear it on a silver watch chain when
was breakir on freight train fifteen years
sgo. We had little faxen-haired girl
baby, and | was away so much Leaving al
4 o'clock In the morning, and coming home
late every second night, that / did not have
much time to visit with the baby, except
when she woke up nights with aching gums
and Sundays. Well, boys, the little ba J
almost cut a whole set of teeth on that mis-
cradle little watch charm. Nothing would
seem to hit the right spot on the tooth,
and she would I.y awake of nights 10
wait for me 10 come home aud papa was
never TOO dirty for her to get in his lap,
nestle up in the bosom covered with a
greasy blouse and be happy. Sundays her
mother didn't have TO look at her, because
she was in my lap all day. Welt, one day
was up on the road with a way freight,
unloading some stuff at a station, and the
second day out, and thinking that at Sp
m. / would be at home ard the baby would
gsllop over me when my conductor, Is
good boy as ever lived, who is now a
division superintendent, came along as pale
as sheet and said to me: 'Boss, you have
got to go right home. Go, get on the engine
and the old man will pull her out and get
YOU down 90 your house in about forty
and he can get back before We
have this freight unlosded. Your baby is
awful sick Boys. was so wesk couldn't
lift pound. / couldn't get on the engine
without help, bat We went TO j. like the
wind. The baby was dead, was dead when
the conductor told me, snd be knew il, but
il WIS tough enough TO- him, poor old p I'd,
to tell me she was sick. 1 found her dead.
having died of commissions in teething, and
my wife frantic, while l felt as though a
train of box cars hso run over me, and
wished they had. Oh, what blow that
was. The prettiest baby that ever was,
that / left two days before with smiles on
her face that would soften the hardest
heart, dead. She had said: "Tum home |
to-morrov, papa and baby have a new
tool" As she lay on the bed, an angel
with her lips smilingly parted, enough TO |
show some of the little teeth that had cut |
the holes you see in this charm. / took |
the charm up aud kissed it, and | said / |
would always wear il and | have, so far, |
and always will"
The stylish conductor turned his head |
one way to wipe his eye, the ticking con-
Gnc;or turned his head another way, and |
every blessed one of tn large-hearted |
boys had tesIs in their eyes as big as the |
stylish conductors dismond. They shook |
hands with the stylish conductor and went
away. A few days stterward the stylish |
conductor missed his charm, when he was |
goirg sway, and his wife told him she !
wanted to have the ring fxed that held il |
on tie chain and she would have il fer him |
" hen be me back from his run. When |
he came back the boys met at his house,