The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27

ing to dance at Bridgewell. They were
desperate. "What will the girls think p
they said At frequent intervals they conn
pared watches aud fell to calculating the
hour at which they could reach the dance if
the train should get away within fifteen
minutes
OF course, everybody felt sorry for the
fellows who we're going to the dance, hut
didn't get there. Yet there was Others
who needed sympathy. Some Of them got
It.
Nothing brings out more agreeable
! brand OF benevolence than neat little
wreck like this. Two mon raided the near
est dairy and came through the trains with
| buckets of warm milk which they admins
tered in spirit of pure philanthropy to the
| women and children. Other men, whose
motives might be less easy of analysis,
| sought the country store half q mile away
and made certain quiet inquiries. But 1t
was local option township and the people
had voted the other way An emergency,
| however, always brings forward the right
| man. In back seat of one OF the express
cars was tall, pale, cynical looking man
with sinister cast in one eye, who refuted
every suggestion offered by his personal
| appearance. This man had nicSel-plated
flask TO which he had applied himself with
almost pathetic fervor during the earlier
minutes of the affair. After recovering in
|
! dual betook himself among his fellow men
aud covertly relnquished first to one and
then TO another this glistening object Of his
| Affection. by whatever incomprehensihle
principle OF selection he marked his men,
this pAilanthropist never seemed to offer
the bottle to any one who did not suffer the
| especial thirst, which II was designed to
quenoh. And Judging by the long service
inflicted upon the flask there may be some-
thing lnEthe complaint offered by Mr.. Nc
| Alllster III his Society As ] Have Found
| It," that people no longer drink, but only
sip.
The country store to which have re-
ferred was thrown into great excitement.
As the evening drew on aud people began
to get hungry the proprietor realized that
he held in his hand the opportunity Of his
life. He worked under high pressure. dis
pensing canned beef, crackers, sardines and
milk, and wearing all the time an express
sion of strained citation that was a sight to
remember. The buffet in the parlor car
was cleaned out. The train boys sand
witches disappeared at a premium.
Then some men started bonfire beyond
the track. and aided and Allotted by some
pretty women they pillaged n countryman's
corn field and soon had some fine ears Of
corn roasting comfortably at the blaze.
The circle round the fire included a bevy of
girls from tho special, who attained a very
| adventurous frame of mind. As the even
| ing fell the fire seemed TO gain in brilliancy
and added to the p icturesqueness Of the
| group by which it was surrounded.
Meanwhile the conductor OF the special,
| who continued to answer inquiries with an
incomprehensible smile, had stolen away
| from the wrecking engine and the tackling
and the jackscrews and murmured profanity
at the derailed engine long enough 20 tiud
| an orchard. came up with basket of prime
| anDlaz "a nd obaaraA ba do
| jected by the distribution Of his harvest.
| The natives made their Appearance with
| characteristic conservatism. They leaked
into the scene by unnotieed degrees. Two
| very tall men of an unkempt appearance,
who we're rumored to own nearly all Of the
visible landscape, stood near the rails gaz-
| ing with taciturn stare at the two trains
and their scattered occupants. When ap-
preached by inquiries these two mon we're
| found to have much valuable Information
| not possessed by the conductors. They had
| lived in those parts since the road was built
| thirty years ago and were unable by per-
sonal experience Of wrecks along the limo of
the road to promise that Iteration would be
a much longer time in coming than any
body had supposed. 1t was apparent that
their assurances OF a prolonged delay gave
them much comfort OF mind.
Them injuns,n said the man with the
yellowest chin whisker take the Internal
ist time to raise. You kin make yoursel YES
easy round here for good time yit."
People did make themselves easy after
some of the manners indicated and after
others In great variety. Some husbands got
together in the smoker" Of the express aud
started a consolatory game Of poker with
mild ante OF 10 cents. Under the nervous
strain of the situation the ante jumped to
% cents.
Two youths with guitars licked an ac-
compartment TO Comrades. A girl with
a charming sapreno gathered the other
necessary clements OF a quartet and sere-
naded somebody in the parlor car Of the
Especial" All this time, too, couples had
been strolling tp the track, projecting
themselves at the vanishing poiat of an at
tractiye picture TIE young moon put a
silver plating on the rails, thanked the out
lines OF the trees and invited all sorts of ro-
mantle suggestions. Some one who seemed
TO know pointed out one Of theSc couples
with the remark. married this moril ing. "
Here was a romancel What sentimel-
tai halo these words married this morn
| ingp oast about this youthful pairl For
they were youthful, and the girl had such a
delightfully."- becoming gown that caught a
nameless luster from the moonlight. They
came once or twice to love at the bonfire,
which was supplied with something that
| looked suspiciodslY like pasture fence,
and while they stood there he stole his arm
about her.
At last, after everybody has decided that
1t was TO be an all night matter with the
derailed engine-at IL o'clock y. m. in fact
the wreckers succeeded with their task
and the express started away. A few min
utes later the special, after snort and
scream frem the engine, flew down the sill.
vered tracks toward New YORK, bridal
couple and all VIoroR LINES.
/
| g. M. Carter, Ches or, s. c., writes: "a
negro boy here had bad case of scrofula.
The doctor said it would kill him. / got
him to use Botanic Blood Balm. He took a
| dOzan hOtflaa and ia uou wall Ha has not