Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-22

forward and then backward, an an- other cuss, with bullfro9 voice, or dered me to Wake upI the devil wants youp
 You needn't laugh, gentlemen, when tell you, I run; an sod you if you'd been thar was certain the devil had come for .me-late but sure-an' l didn't wait for him to ask for my ticket"
 Tom Pope at this point broke into . stentorian laugh.
 'If, gent' men, you'd seen Sandy come firing into the car where I was sitting, you would never stop laughing. You may not believe 1t, but his brown face was as white as your shirt fronts, and his eyes were as big as billiard balls. He dashed down the aisle and whispered in my ear:
 ""Toml Toml como with mel"
 "'What's the matter, Mac?' I said What ails you?'
 Tom, the devils in my car. He's been a-cutting up for half an hour, an I'm most crazy. If you're my friend come with me P
 "He wasn't drunk, because he doesn't drink. It wasn't religious enthusiasm, because Sandy has no religion. aInOSb O0l1CVO no LnCSub "udG uO said, and that he had been called for. got up in a hurry and followed him. "I hadn't more than got inside the baggage car when, from among the 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-dghter in the ring. D.l parrot.''
 "An' then the parrot told you you lied," asserted McTougaL "Yesp' says Tom, cheerfully. And then you said-do you remem. Der what you said?"
 ''No, Mac; but wasn't at your side when we got into the next coach a sec ond later?"
 "We came back with two brakemen," :" | McTougal remarked, continuing. "One of them brakemen looked on top of the car, an under it. an in it. He stuck to | it that there was a ventriloquist about, but gave tLat idea up when he couldn't find nobody"
 "We flung those trunks right and left in a lively style," observed Pope; "but not a thing did we discover-no I place from which the noise came.
 "We were puzzled, 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 a car that was haunted.
 "But the end came. While we were looking into each others faces, and frightened in being blocked in that sort ! 4 oSo very distinctly: Let me outl lam dy- ing-dying!
 ''It was under my arm the voice was," Sandy exclaimed, Tin a 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 slzel- eton. I got hold of the sledge hammer. 'Keepup your courage, ma'am,' shout ed, 'an' we'll have you out in a jiffy.'"
 "You should see Sandy at that mo- ment, "said Pope, enthusiastically. "He looked like hero, every inch of him
 He gave that hammer four sweeping swings. Crash! crash! Rip! tearl Of came the top, and it was flung clear
 across the car. A pile of light, f1eecy stuff followed.
 "A dozen faces looked anxiously in
 to that trunk, expecting to see the
 body of dying or dead woman. Sandy
 seemed beside himself with anxiety.
 "We crowded around the trunk anc
 the doctor knelt down beside it.
 "He pulled out lot of rags very
 carefully, run his arms down on
 prospecting tour, lifted up great wac
 of cotton, took a good long lool
 under it, rose to his feet and began tt curse every body, and call 'em pacl
 of fools. Then he changed his tun' !. and began to laugh.
 "I asked him little angrily what h. , was making such fuss about, and he proposed to take out the body. 1 "'Bodyl body! ha, ha, ha, ha! Sc, , here, gentlemen and he tossed out tn ! cotton from the trunk, showing
 ny-looking machine at the bottom , This is Stringfellow's phonograpl , that he's had down to camp meeting , the doctor said. He took one an
 rigged it up so as to go by clockwork The shaking of the car set it in me tion.
 B It's been repeating, parrot like only what has been told to it by tn saints and sinners. Very simple, 70,
 see. I won't charge you anything fo 8 my visit, conductor. Good night an - off he went
 Sandy, our friends here want t t know how that dream of yours owe t that trunk ended"
 "Ohl they do. do they2 Wal, gentle S men. I had to pay the cost of tha t trunk, an trunks cost. It took l months salary to do it, which ism
 complimentary to the road. '- "I learned one lesson. If I eve s want ter open any mans luggage i e future, I'll smash it professions o style."-Boston Globe. Indefinite Directions.
 "How often does the ferry boat start? l l incurred lady of waterside chara1