Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-20

saw dAu SuOALS Vi FL bLdDlO "clC ilCdi u oil
around. You couldn't get a Mexican within
a rod of that depot Tor a month after when
a train came in" -
Il have never had any experience with
snakes. said another, but I saw
a new plan worked to get an en-
CINE on the track that 1 had never
heard of before. We were on the Mexican
Central below Aqua LaGuna. You know
the fills along there are almost all of coarse
sand. Well, my engine jumped the track
one day and turned bottom side up. There
was nothing we could rig up tackle with,
not even q tree, and we couldn't set any
thing in the ground but would pull right
up. We didn't know What to do. We had
a fellow named Johnson as our con. be IS
now managing an opera house somewhere
up North. He scratched his head awhile
and then he got all hands TO work and dug
deep trench. In this we laid track.
Then we dug away the sand from the west
side of the engine, so she would turn over,
and all hands then gave her push. She
rolled over and lit fair and square on the
rails. We soon had steam up and by the
time the track had been laid up the incline
she was ready TO 60 We got her up on the
main track all right, though it was rather
risky business going up that incline, and l
expected she would turn over again every
minute. We got through all right though.
If that engine hadn't turned over just rs
we MttllSu iICI " Slic piOGaoAJ low
been there yet
.'One of the funniest things I ever knew
to occur railroading,' said conductor,
was when was 9 brake. We pulled out
of WhiteSboro one day with q train of cat
tie. In those days many of the stock cars
had the old-fashioned, long-end doors. We
had seen that all the side doors were fast
ened before leaving Whitesboro. but some
how had failed to notice the end doors. l
was sitting on the roof of car with my
legs hanging over, thinking of nothing IN
particular. It was q nice spring day and |
was enjoying the ride immensely. We were
pulling up the hill this side of Savoy, when
l saw 4 steer fall out from between a couple
of cars and TCll over in the ditch. He laid
over in the weeds very nicely and never
kicked. l thought Here's sheol to pay and
no pitch hot l jumped up and ran ahead
and found the end door open and another
steer Just poking his nose out. | kicked
him rs hard as | could, hanging on the
brake, and he pulled his head in. l swung
down between the cars and fastened the
door. When 1 got on top again l was as
weak as n cat and trembling like leaf If
one of those steers had fallen I'M
der the wheels he would have
piled US all in the ditch. The
cowman, when We come to deliver the cat
tie was positive he was one short, but as
the doors were all fastened and no stops
had been made he finally came to the con-
clusiOn that q mistake had been made in
the count ] kept my mouth shut and
didn't tell the con about it for two or three
trips after that" -
The night express went laundering out
of HOpkinSville, Ky, at I O'Clock sharp.
The passengers had made themselves COM
Portable and everything seemed suspicious
for quick and safe run TO Nashvi! e, Tenn.
The CeXpresS messenger busted himself
about his packages, getting his car in order,
after which, having nothing else to do. he
to the open window and looked
out at the rising moon. What a glorious
night it was. The full moon came up from
behind the trees and hung over their tops
like ball of fire. How sweet and peaceful |
everything looked. The thoughts of the |
young man went back to home and mother. |
Wrapped in delightful dream he sank |
down on the box nearest to him, but sud |
denly he jumped up in alarm, for he had |
heard a remarkable sound-a poor faint |
little voice crying, Papa
Oh what a cruel trick for the boys to |
play on him. He must find the little one at |
once He searched every nook and corner. |
and looked behind every box, but no baby |
was to be found.
What was he to do2 He felt certain that |
he had heard the voice, ard something must |
be done. He had il at last. He rang the |
bell with all his might, and the conductor |!
came hurriedly to know what had hap |
pened.
The passengers were all excitement; |
windows went up, heads were pOked out, |
and everyone had surmise. fully half Of |
them thinking it must be robbers.
When the conductor returned he told |
them that the express messenger had |
heard the cry Of child in his car, and |
then he inquired If any child was missing. |
This threw all the mothers present into a
panic of fright But they soon recovered |
when they saw that all their own darlings |
were safe, and every woman expressed |
the greatest sympathy for the little stran-
ger in the express car. They even volun-
teered to 40 and assist in the search for
the little, lost waif, but to this the conduc-
tor would not consent.
The young man in the express car was
meanwhile doubling the evidence of his |
OWN senses, for had he not heard the voices.
He could swear to it. Slowly he sinks down |
On the same box, when. merciful heavens, |
here was the voice again crying, Mama"
All, ne has it now. The voice cones from |
she box Some heartless mother perhaps, |
sending her babe by express.
Quickly he cuts the cord and takes OF the |
oasteboard lid. Yes there it lies, the dear
little soul, with its soft curls and snowy |
iress. He lifts 1t out tenderiy, and then,
imagine his surprise-it is dell-one of |
Idison's speaking dolls. Every time he |
;at down on the box he pressed the spring, |
and then came the feeble little wall of
papa" mama which caused so much |
and alarm Express Gazette.