Arizona republican., 1892-12-23
I'm most crazy. If you're my friend

m noee crazy IT you're my friend come with mer
 "He wasn't drunk, because he doesn't drink. It wasn't religious enthusiasm, because Sandy had no religion. l al. most believed he meant what he said. and that he had been called for. Igot up in hurry and followed him.
 "1 hadn't more than got inside tho baggage car when from among ths trunks something sung out, Shut that door and pull down your vestp
 Sandy wanted to fight, then" con tinued Tom. He danced around that car like prize fighter in the ring, until the voice cried out quite loud: 'Damna. tonr 'PshawT I said to Sandy, That's a 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 a sec ond lateY'
 "We came back with two brakemen," 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 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 zled, 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 outl am dyiDg-dyingr"
 'It was under my arm, the voice was, Sandy exclaims, 'in big trunk that had come from camp meeting. I 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 a skeleton. I got hold of the sledge- hammer. Keep up your courage, ma'amr l 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 crash! Ripl tearl Of came the top, and it was flung clean across the car. A pile of light, feecy stuff followed. A dozen faces looked anxiously into that trunk, expecting to see the body of dying or dead woman. Sandy seemed beside himself with anx- iety.
 "Wecrowded around the trunk and the doctor knelt down beside it. He pulled out a lot of rags very carefully, run his arm down on prospecting tour, lifted up great wad of cotton, took a 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. l asked him a little angrily what he was making such a fuss about. and if he proposed to take out the body.
 "'Bodyl bodyl ha, ha, ha, hal See here, gentlemenp and he tossed out the cotton from the trunk, showing 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 Edison's concerns and rigged 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. Iwont 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 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 York News.