Connecticut western news., 1892-11-03
CANAAN CONN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

tionr 'Pshawp I said to Sandy, That's 8 boxed up parrot
 "An then the parrot told you you lied, asserted McTougal.
 "Yes," says Tom, cheerfully.
 "And then you said-do you remem- Der what you saidY'
 "No, Mack; but wasn't at your side when we got into the next coach sec ond later'
 "We came back with two brakemen,n McTougal remarks, continuing. "One of them brakemen looked on top of the car an under it an in it. He stuck to it that there was ventriloquist about, but gave that idee up when he couldn't find nobody"
 "We flung those trunks right and left in a lively style," observed Pope, "but not thing did we discover-no human living. or dead thing-not place from which the noise came We were pug xled, you may believe; and if the search had stopped there the road might have |, warehoused that coach, for no railroad man would have travelled in car that ' was haunted. But the end came. While , we were looking in each others faces, and frightened in being blocked in that sort of way, the voice spoke again. It said very distinctly: Let me out! I am R dying-dyingp"
 "It was under my arm, the voice was" Sandy exclaims, ''in big trunk that had come from camp meeting. sung out for Jake to run for doctor, if there was one on the train, an Tom an me put that trunk on the floor as gently as if twas glass. Twas light enough. We thought the poor thing must be almost 8 skeleton. I got hold of the sledge- hammer. Keep up your courage, ma'amp I shouted, 'an we'll have you out in jiffy.'
 "You should have seen Sandy at that moment" says Pope enthusiastically. 'He looked hero, every inch of him. He gave that hammer four sweeping swings. Crashl crashi Ripl teari Of came the top, and it was flung clean across the car. A pile of light, heecy stuff followed. A dozen faces looked anxdously into that trunk, expecting to see the body of dying or dead woman. Sandy seemed beside himself with anD iety.
 "We crowded around the trunk and the doctor knelt down beside it. He pulled out lot of rags very carefully, run his arm down on 8 prospecting tour, lifted up great wad of cotton, took good long look under it, rose to his feet and began to curse everybody and call 'em a pack of fools. Then he changed his tune and began to laugh. I asked him a little angrily what he was making such a fuss about. and if he proposed to take out the body,
 I. "Bodyi bodyl ha, ha, ha, hal See here, gentlemenp and he tossed out the cotton from the trunk, showing 8 funny looking machine at the bottom. This is .Stringfellow's photograph that he's had down to camp meeting, the doctor said. He took one of Edisons concerns and rgged it up so as to go by clockwork. The shaking of the car set it in motion. It's been repeating, parrotlike, only what was told to it by the saints and sinners. Very simple, you see. I won't charge you anything for my visit, conductor. Good night and off he went.
 Sandy, our friends here want to know how that dream of yours over that trunk ended"
 "Oh, they do-do they? Wal, gentle men, had to pay the cost of that trunk, an trunks cost in these times. It took a months salary to do it, which isn't com | plimentary to the road. learned one lesson. If I ever want ter open any mans luggage in future I'll smash it in professional style."-E. D. M. in New I York News.