The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-09
an AeLE.soplEp LIAR.
He Tells Yarn the Like Of Which Has
Never Before Been Hoard.

'He Tells a Yarn the Like Of Which Has
Never Before Been Hoard.
Among the recently invigorated liars OF
the town is one who has just returned from
session with ozone in Colorado, says the
Omaha World Herald. 1t was his first trip
through tho mountains and he was much
affected by the feats of engineering skill
there manifested, as witness the following:
~ had heard of the curve on the Pennsyl-
vania, where according 10 the time-card
schedule, the engineer is obliged to lean out
of his cab and exchange tobacco with the
brakeman on the rear end, so as to give the
passengers something to talk about, and
now believe IL. There was an old, honest,
horny-handed miner rode over the road out
of Denver with mo and he told me several
things. Once while we were being ierked
around the edge of the mountains and could
look out from under the roots Of our hair at
the track opposite in the valley he told me
tale. Said he:
"That yere track down yal is the one
we're onto, but we won't tech it for an
hour. We run up the ravine am down the
side of the mountain an double back.
Down thar is whcr' Jim Lyle saved the pay
master o. the road
"'HowF Inquired.
"Tt were this way: The paymaster's car
was hitched onto the hind end o. the freight
train, his own engine havin' had little
trouble with her runnin' gear an bein'
abandoned fer awhile up the road. Well,
the train was snortin' and crawlin' aroun'
the mountain, when all Of sudden the
back brakeman comes runnin' up an yells
TO jim:
W""Pull out! Pull outl They's gang o.
rustlers has caught the engine an are
humpin' after usl Pull"
"'Well, jim Lyle noticed that. He seen
at wunst that the engine had been fixed up
an that tue rustlers had took her to ketch
him an git the dust in the paymaster's car,
so he pulled out right peart an tried to
OUTRAGE 'em, but it want no 20. They KEEP
gittin' up on him.
w'Pretty soon he struck the beginnin' o.
this we're curve. He didn't slack breath
an the conductor come rushin' up an bel
lered
"'"Fer Gods sake, what kin we dol II
we run this We'll climb rail-"
"'"Sallright,' said Jim Lyle "If I cal
clate rightly that cars saved" an he gave
UeT phllOub uh Juob % hO iSoShSu
right here he Jerked her wide open. Then
we see what was what. Lookn' back l.,
bein on the train, seen the last coach go up
in the air, there was a jerk, an away over
into the canyon she went
"'Well, where docs the salvation Of the
coach come InP l asked. Il don't see any
particular advantage in being spilled over
a mountain-side and being shot by train.
robbers
"'Now, don't git frisky,' said the old
man. I'm tellin' this yere an ant done.
That there coach, as | say, sailed over
offin the track Just like the hind boy did
when you used TO play ''crack the whip at
school. 1t foatod down as nice as you
please an lit on the track below In the val.
ley, en- with the force it was slung rolled
ten miles TO the next station. When we
got there it was in on the sidin' an we
pulled by, an when the light engine load
o. rustlers come bullin' along the towns.
people was waitin' fer 'em an the new
cemetery was started In good Shape.'n