, 1890-01-26

Going up the road the other day,
with the broad and decollette bosom of
Lake PekIn glIstening in the crisp air and
pulsatlng beneath the bright, declining
sun and swiftly darting by the historic
Maiden Rock from which the beau
utul but plainly educated Indian
girl leapt to her death. falling to the cruel
rocks below with the low, dull plash of a
dsheveled egg on the broad brow of a
lecturer, L thought of those dear old
days when Mlnnehaha had been em
balmed In song and interurban lots be-
tween ST. Paul and Minneapolis could be
bought for a string OF glass beads, even
AS William Penn purchased the state of
Pennsylvania.
1t was in PENNSYLVANIA only a short
time ago that we met, running out of
Altoona, the Justly celebrated conductor
who can extend his cars, like a Jack in
the box, at will. | do not recall his name,
but L do remember that alter | had asked
him something about whether we were
late or not several times, he held his head
down 20 my lips and shot his ear out at
me like the warm, dank nose OF a baby
elephant. He has a national reputation
that way, it seems, but | did not know it.
Others who knew both of US enjoyed The
meeting very much. Since that | have
oeen less lnqulsitive about trains. One
can hardly realize how strange the sensa
ton is when ho is greeted in that way bv
ne to whom he has no letter of introduce
ton.
also took a ride out of PHILADELPHIA
in the cab of a locomotive engine later
on. 1t was the Henry +. Shaw of the
Baltimore x Ohio, and | had to get up
at 6 O'Clock a. N. to do 1t, but as | went
TO bed at 5:4S, having been to the Union
League club to see some friends the even
ing before, who haG detained me, it did
not matter. Securing a pound of cotton
waste-l do not mean this in the society
sense, for that kind of cotton waist has
little TO do with this letter. ven down
to the b. & D: depot, and, looking once
more at my little volume of mechanical
terms,s that | could talk intelligibly with
the engineer, | clambered up the front
stoop of the cab. We rode out to Ches
Ter and back. That is all | know about
It. l heard a roar, a hiss, a snort, a
whistle, a ring. the quick rumble of the
pilot, the gasp OF the mud valve, the low
vibration of the crown sheet, the surgipg
of the cut off, the sigh OF the monkey
wrench, and we were off.
rs not the life of the engineer one of
extreme periI?' l asked Harry S. Burial,
our handsome engineer. He did not
hear me, for it was a suburban train, and
as we were quite busy stopping and start.
ing he VOTED not what | said.
And, as we say in England, do you
not enter with hearty zest, after awhile,
upon this Jolly life as you gayly toot your
trap down the void and out across the
mere, like perdition beating tan bark?"
AT that moment the rudy firemen,
MIR. j. ID. MetZgar, swung wide the fire
IGOR, opening K. U E., ran a poker into
the hot NAV OF the engine, letting out a
lame which reached for my 1.-THE and
gazelle like limbs, gently searching the
embroidery at the base of my DR.. Jipger
underwear, roared at the top of its lungs
and drowned my voice.
And do you not at times have tc
throw her over and run for the woodbox.
or Jerk the poor child of some unknown
Pennsylvania duke from the track, hand
ing her back to her parents unscathed
and receiving 81 80 therefor, at the same
time getting laid off for thirty days fol-
not keeping out OF the way of the regular
through express, besides having to paw
for a Pullman car, which is worth far
more than a child, especially where it was
! poor child with several brothers and
sisters? And do you not think, seriously,
that a child or two, more or less, especi.
ally among working People, should have
little to do with the running time of
trains?"
At this point | was quite exhausted,
ana so was the engine. So the engineer
did not hear me. | took off my plug hat
out out a little fire that had started en-
the top aud said
Il suppose you have loved ones who
have recognized your whistle and at night
put a lamp in the window, two times if
we'll. three times for Group, four times
for worms and FIVE times to indicate
'bnckwheat cakes for break fast.
He pulled the handle of The under feed
throttle and threw a large lump of btu.