Mower County transcript., 1890-12-10

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are mighty trying on machine, now I
tell ye, before ye get half through; and
nigh on to tho end you don't know
what minute the poor old creature may
break her heart on ye. " looked the
Sycamore over as I took her out o the
shop-I always do that with my own
eyes: but If had known what wo were
to try on, I'd given those connecting
rods moro attention. We used to wcdgo
them on tho wheels; you have seen tho
steel keys? Nowadays they arc fastened
in the shops 50 tho mon can't wedge
them too tight, every station or two.
1t Is this new way of fastening that
causes tho ringing noise you now hear
rs tho big drive-wheels pass you. Did
you never notice?
"Well. soon began to feel OF her
wind. Sho was not long in making
that flreman's box too uneasy for my
general manager. He danced like toy
man. Then he closed tho window ahead.
Then he shut the ono at his side, though
they ratified open, and he lost his hat,
which the fireman caught on the bag
gage-oar brake; but Mr.. Manager could
not let 80 his clutch on the scat to
replace his hat. The hat was all coal
dust, any way, so it was put into the
tool-chest Now we were just flying.
I never took my eyes of the iron. but
out OF the corners of my eyes saw how
distressed he was. He undertook to
holler something, but paid no atten-
tion. The fireman showed in the sprink-
ings fine; he knew exactly how. Fir
ing is half the battle in big run.
Well, we wore going so we'll that was
afterward told the paymaster's car,
which we were pulling home, could not
keep the dinner dishes on tho table !!
No, sir! Twice, going round curves,
every dish the boys had was swept.on
the floor. If we had had dining-cars in
those days, wouldn't the soup have been
spilledl"
'1should have thought your conductor
might have intorfered," I suggested.
II expected he would" was tho re-
ply. But as timo went on, and our
rate grew simply fearful on the passen-
gers, knew we'll enough that the con-
ductor had been scolded as we'll as the
rest Of us. No; he told me afterwards
that he simply sat down and said his
prayers. But to 60 on; saw that we
had made up twenty-eight minutes,
then thirty, then irty-three-being
ing only seven minutes behind. But
there we hung. She could not increase
her lead do my best.
Il knew then that we should soon be.
gin to lose again, FOR she was heating.
Whether the boxes were Juggling on the
cars or engine I could not be sure.
Then, too, it might have been the
curves, at all events we we're Juggling
and losing. We fell off l calculated
some five minutes, when VIC struck the
tunnel. It was a heavy rail and a
straight track there, and pulled her
clean out for one more squirt, live or die,
as we dashed into the steam and dark
ness OF that long hole. In there you
can't see any thing but signals. The
Sangamore answered me for just ono
plunge. But the next instant, crash!
God help me! The whole side of the
cab was flying in splinters~ I knew
what that meant. jumped from my
seat in front of the fire-box. There,
under my seat, was the general man
ager. He had been mercifully knocked
in instead of out, but he was senseless.
My drivers held their rod yet, but I
knew tho strain could not last long
without swapping that rod. too, as
could not find the throttle to shut
her off. 1t was SO queer about that
throttle. turned round and round try
ing to find it; kept turning to tho left.
/ thought I had an extra eye just over
my ear, and my other two eyes were
blind. That new eye showed me q
beautiful clear light, but not tho throt-
tie. Round and round that fearful
steel hammer, tho broken rod, kept
crashing and tearing out the shreds of
the cab on that side. Then the other
one twisted, which threw old Sycamore
plump into the granite wall We were
all piled up there, dark as pitch all
about, and finally still. Now, the Curl
Gus thing about it all is that with my
new eye over my ear actually read the
time by my watch, and we were only
seven minutes late. Yes, sir, we had
made up thirty-tnree minutes in the
seventy-four miles, slow-ups and stops
included; and minute more would
have brought US to tho station. just
yelled: 'How's that, old English?" and
my new eye seemed to 60 out in dark.
ness"
The new eye was the result Of fear
full cash on the sido of the head, from
the effects OF which the poor man lin
gered on the borders of death for weeks.
That postponed the wedding. The
peculiar effect Of that blow on the head
the writer can not explain, but the fact
that he read his watch correctly is sub
stan tiated by the conductor Of the train,
of whom asked information.
''Were there many injured?" l added,
in the pause that followed his conclu-
sion.
Don't ask me-yes. Thank God I'm
alive! i Now Mollie," addressing his
wife, who just entered, ::tl've told that
story for the last time, except in my
prayers. ."-Emory j. Haynes, D. D., in
n. Y. Ledger. '@'>'
What Mon Eat and Drink.
If man eats a pound of beef, mutton
or other flesh every day. in year he