The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-02-07
.Yesl, SAYS Tom. cheerfullx.

! "Yesr' says Tom, cheerfully.
And then you said--do you remem-
Der what you said?"
mo, Mac; but wasn't at your side
when we got into the next coach Sec
ond later?'
1--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 vantriloquist about,
but gave that idea up when he couldn't
find nobody"
I'VE flung those trunks right and
left in lively style" observed Pope;
"but not a thing did we diseover-no
human living or dead thing-not a
place from which the noise came.
I'VE 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
of way the voice spoke again. 1t said
very distinctly: Let me outl Tam dy-
ing-dyingr
at was under my arm the voice
was" Sandy exclaimed, sin big trunk
that had come from camp-meeting !
sung out for Jake to run for a doctor il
| 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
| .n& - ~, elr n
eton. got hold of the sledge hammer.
Keep up your courage, ma am, Ishout-
ed, an we1 have you out in q jify.'"
"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. Crashl crashI Ripl teari Of
came the top, and it was flung clean
across the car. A pile of light, feecy
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.
1--WE crowded around the trunk and
the doctor knelt down beside it.
''He pulled out a lot of rags very
carefully. run his arms down on q
prospecting tour. lifted up great wad
of cotton, took a good long look
under it, rose to his feet and began to
curse erybody, and call 'em pack
of fools. Then he changed his tune
and began to laugh.
81 asked him little angrily what he
was making such fuss about, and If
he proposed to take out the body.
i" Body body ha ha, ha, hal See
here, gentlemen 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 and
rugged it up so as to go by clockwork.
The shaking of the car set it in mo-
ton.
4" It's been repeating, parrot like,
only what has been told to it by the
saints and sinners. Very simple, you
see. 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"
''ohl they do, do they? Wal, gentle
men. had to pay the cost of that
trunk, an trunks cost 1t took 8
months salary to do it, which isn't
complimentary to the road
81 learned one lesson. II l ever
want ter open any mans luggage In
future, I'll smash it professional
style. Boston Globe.