St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-25

81 might be interesting, | should i'm
agine. Blu the tramp must be caught
first"
'Pve got one now"
"Wherem
Sin trap"
The newspaper man looked around
for something like mouse trap on a
large scale with a tramp in it, but there
was nothing to be seen but boxes and
trunks.
Il don't see him." he said.
''He is OH this car" declared the bag
gagemaSter. AT this very moment he
is riding outside. No, you can't see him,
because he is lying across the platform
| caught sight of him Just after we left
Trenton. He looked very comfortable,
and he doesn't know that anybody is on
to him. But | have to keep sharp
lookout. for the reason that frequently
carry money and other valuabes."
why don't you put him OFF,"
Because we don't stop until we get
to Philadelphia. but he will have nice
bath before he gets there"
"HoW do you mean"'
'1'll show you presently. You see,
we are just behind the tender of the
locomotive. | have given private sig
nal TO the engineer, and he knows what
Is expected of him. OrIy about mile
ahead now there is water trough,
where the locomotive takes UP water
while going al full speed. 1t is sort
of ditch that 1unS along for considera-
bic distance between the rails filled
with water. The locomotive takes up
the water with kind of scoop. Just
Watch!'
A moment laterthe water trough was
Hr~ix, Of
the top of the great iron tank on the
tender, the lid of it tapping up and
down while the reservoir filled itself
from below. This did not occupy more
than half minute, DIT the end of which
the engineer should have pulled up the
scoop. Instead of that, however, he
permitted the tank to overflow in a cat
aract, which was flung backward like a
miniature Niagara against the forward
ell dot the baggage car.
"Just look at that" cried the bag
gagemaster, delightedly. tAin't he
getting it thought"
In truth, che unfortunate tramp must
have been getting it with a vengeance,
| for the tremendous flood of water spout
| ing from the top of the tank continued
to fling Itself against the face of the
| baggage car for fully three-QuarterS of
| a minute, which must have been nearly
| sufficient to drown any human being OH
| the front platform. So copious was il
| that the water flowed in beneath the
door and threatened to inundate the
| freight.
''If that fellow is still alive" said the
| baggage-master when the cataract had
| finally suspended its activity, ''he has
had enough to give him diStaste for
water for the rest of his life. There
isn't anything that will brighten man
like dose of that sort, according to ouI
| experience. Coming on him unawares.
| it scareS him most to death, besides half
| drowning him. He don't know when
it is going to stop, and ne has to choose
between standing it and jumping off the
train"
"But suppose he should jump off and
be killed?''
"What would it matter?" replied the
baggage-master phllosophically.
When the train slowed up an hour
later near Philadelphia the newspaper
man saw figure that looked more like
a drowned rat than human being
crawl off the front platform of the bag
gage car and steal sorroWfully away. L
was the tramp, who had had bath as
we'll as ride at the expense OF the
| railway.