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they don't compare with an engineer.
When they see themselves getting into
a tight place they have some time to
look about them and to make up their
minds what to do: but when an engi-
neer, running. say at forty miles an
hour round Il sharp curve, meets All
engine coming his way on the same
track, he hasn't even time to cuss.
All he can do is to reverse his engine,
which most times Is a big mistake, as
I've heard our best engineers say, and
either to jump and break his neck or
stay and he smashed. or course, the
engineer In such circumstances isn't
always killed. especially II he sticks to
his engine, but / tell you II takes nerve
to handle a lever and wait like an in
telligent man when another engine Is
almost atop OF you. Nine men out of
ten would just drop on The floor or the
cab and say the first bit of prayer
that they could lay a hand to.
speaking OF nerve reminds the that
there was an engineer on this road cnce
who lost his nerve under very similar
circumstances, and Hank Stevens was
at the bottom OF those circumstances,
as you might say. II isn't at all un-
common for an engineer TO lose his
nerve. II may happen through having
his spinal marrow hurt IN an acciueht'
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Matt meant what he said. Matt was,
as ! have told YOU, a mighty careful and
conscientious man, but you could drive
up his mind tn run into Hanks train II
II kept getting in his way, and ! don't
blame him. However. he never did run
into Hanks train, though ne thought he
I'D. but Hank worked a little game on
him that left him with no more nerve
Than race-hOrse that Is frightened by
bit of paper and thinks MS going to rise
UP and tear him all To pieces.
About "A, week went by, and Hank
never crowded the express Off the track
except once, and he did that when he
knew that Mats girl was ON the train.
ana thar he naturally wouldn't scare her
by a collision. The very fact that the
girl was there at the time made 1t all
the more hard for Matt to back his train
down and give Hank the right OF way,
for, OF course, she supposed that Matt
had made some sorl OF mistake In his
calculations and had endangered her
men met which was the very next day,
Matt sings out: You've done that trick
for the last time, You do It again and |
sswrIr sh'omnly word without end that
"'ricaSc yourself says Hank. and
then he saw that the time had come for
carry ing ou' plan that he had devised
for destroying Mats usefulness.
"A week or mebhc ten days. or mebbe
a fortnight; later the express came round
a sharp curve near Antioch about
o'clock at night, and precious dark II
was. TOO, at that time Of year. Matt was
two hours late. owing To "a freight train
having go, on the track ahead OF him
aud he had received Il telegram ordering
him 10 pas the aCcOWW -datiOa rye
miles cast Of Antioch. where she would
wait for Tim nn the sldinG. Matt was
ruuu'uE al about tbrtH-Are miles an
hour, trying To make up litTlc time,
and ne kcrt wondering UhetSrr Hank
would wait 700 him on that siding OF
would pull out and come along down
an hour or 30 longer. II he does, says
Matt t. himself. loud enough for the
fireman To- hear him. 'thcre'll be the big
gest smash that this road has seen this
year. Just Il that minute tho express
swung around the curve, and there was
AN engine Oh the track not more than
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at least that's what the doctors say, or
II may be that he has been frightened
once clean through, and when that hap
thing will frighten a man who has had
one good scare, and he knows II, and Is
always on the lookout tor something
that Is going to scare him.
There are men who will run an en-
CINE for forty years and then something
will happen; some little thing, perhaps,
like collision, or going of bridge, or
that they are never 1T to run even a cat
tie train. Now this hyer Hank Stevens
was at the time | am speaking OF en-
gineer of the engine, that hauled the ac-
communication train between Athensvil.e
and Tiberius Centre. and Matt McGinnis
was engineer Of the express. being a man
who had been thirty years in the com
pany's service, and was considered to
have no superior in his line. He was
very nice. qulet sort OF II Fellow. and he
didn't Ike Hanks noisy AMI reck .css
was reckless at times, ! don't object 10
an engineer taking chances when there
Is anything TO be made by IT, bat Hank
just took a pleasure in running for sid
mebbe a minute TO make II in AMI that
II he didn't make It, or II his watch hap
pened to be Il minute slow. another train
would be into him
That's what l call recklesuness. and
! don't care who says II amt Wei.
every afternoon Hanks train used 10
meet the express. Going up he would
meet her about ten miles north OF here,
and going down .hc would meet her just
a mile out OF Spartansyille. II was his
duty TO go on a siding and wait for the
EXPRESS, but when she was five minutes
late Hank had the right OF way. and
could go ahead and require the express
train to wait for him, You may bet
your life he never waited more, than the
Ave minutes. and sometimes he would
pull out when he heard the express
coming, and make her back down TO the
next station.
There was a girl somewhere on the
line, / disremember Just exactly where,
though, come 10 think Of H. she must
have lived at Spsrtansville, No. she
couldn't either. FOR the accommodation
never stopped the night there, and so
Hank couldn't have spent his evening
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and then he got a berth on the Mon
clean gone. He'd think. he saw things
on the track when there was n9tninH
for brakes and stop his train, and haze
the biggest kind OF a job trying Y tell
the conductor what he had stopped his
after about six months, and Matt gave
up railroadlng and is now driving .
truck in Chicago.
II don't know whether he knows the
trick Hank played on him or, not. PVT
a lot OF money in Chicago for q. paste
board engine, made TO look exactly ike
No. a.. and provided with = genuine
his hyar Quaker engine set up, on the
when he knew that the only train which
sSps possibly so s9%s ss IA re
lows engaged In the thing With him.
but Hank was n mighty popular chap
with the boys. and he could always ind
want to carry out.
.of course. the express enelne vent
through the pnstboard concerh Without
for s believing 4 It. was ssSst espsciSliy -
he had the fireman TO back him IN that
opinion. stl fes 5 ~,
81 don't justify Hank. Zoe I, alwsys
considered that he played altosSshss
that he did, now that he is older ana hRg
come to look at things nationally. i
don't think It's the sort OF thing he'd DO
now, though. -ot course. the heart u DE-
oeitful and desperately wicked. az the
good book says.
THAT'S what you say? Never heard
that locomotive could have ghost
Well; All can say is tha! 4 you vsns
a. railroad uAn you would know that
ghosts 0: engines, and ghqgte Of whole
trains, sleeping cars and ALI have been
had thine now I'd tell YOU OF . ghost
train that Used to run on this very road.
and that I've seen with my oEh indi-
twenty or thirty years and you'll know I
sight OF things that you'll never Know
any other way.".-st Louis Republic,
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ORR. G.L. GAEOEkE ACCUSED.
Mrs. Kugler's Relatives Say She
Was Unduly Influenced.
The Physician Denies that He Is a
Professional Beneficiary.

The relatives OF the late Mrs. Kuni-
gunda Kuglei. who died April 10 last,
leaving the bulk of her small estate to
DIR. j. q. l.. Gaedeke. of $50 Second ave-
nue.. have decided to contest the will
upon the ground that DR.. Gaedeke exer-
cised an undue influence over the tesla
tor.
The contestants are Mrs. Joanna
Strong. OF Milwaukee Wis, and Mrs.
Walpurga Notter. of III Leonard street,
Jersey City.
Testimony In the contest will probably
be heard by the Surrogate next month.
Besides the allegation OF undue influence
on DR.. Gaedeke's part, II will be charged
that this is not the first Instance in
which the doctor has inherited under the
will OF a patient over whom, it is alleged
he exerted an extraoi binary influence.
Mrs. Notter, speaking OF the coming
contest. said that Mr.. Kugler, her sis
ter's husband, died Jan. I, 1893, leaving
an insurance policy for 5000 on his life
In society OF which DIR. Gaedeke is a
member.
After that Mrs. Kugler lived for time
latter charges that the doctor induced
her to return TO this city to live. Mrs.
Notter says that she frequently wrote
to her sister after her return to this city.
but received no reply.
After Mrs. Kugler died Mrs. Notter
alleges, DIR. Gaedeke produced a will,
which named him as executor of the estate
and left him all the estate except be-
quests of 800 each to the testatrix's two
sisters and a niece.
Mrs. Notter also alleges that after the
death Of Miss Elizabeth S. Koetter. who,
II Is claimed, DR.. Gaedeke induced to
leave family that had adopted her,
very similar will was produced by the
doctor. in which he was named as execu-
tor and received the bulk of the estate.
DR.. Gaedeke empha tically denies the
charges of undue influence, and says
that In both cases the amounts left him
by his patients were not more than
enough to cover his fees.
He denies having induced Mrs. Kugler
to leave her relatives In Jersey City, but
contends that she left them because
they treated her badly.
He says that Mrs. Kugler's husband
was a friend of his, and that since Mr..
Kugler died he had attended her with
out charges and he thinks Ii but natural
that the money was left to him.
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forty Yards ahead. Her headlight was
blazing away, and right under II Matt
could read the number Of Hanks, engine,
which was No. "a, unless | am mistaken.
| remember II because II was the engine
that used TO haul the train that ! was
baggage OF year before this
hyar Incident happened.
There he is. says Matt, and he's
done It once too often
with that he pulls her wide open
and stands to his post. The express
snrams on saT te 10 81 S @ on ay
unless I'm mistaken In thinking IT was
81, and | don't believe l am. Still. a
man can't always trust his memory,
and | know that mine amt what IL
once was.
We'll, the two engines came together,
and Matt he shut his eyes for a min
ute. for In such circumstances man
can't very well help wtnking. To his
tremendous establishment there wasn't
20 much as jar, let alone crash.
No. S4-yes, | remember now that that
was her number just sort OF opened
out, as YOU might say AM seemed to
engine. There wasn't any train Of any
sort behind "a, and the express went OIL
her wa rejoicing.
Matt turns 10 the fireman with
face as white as a consumptive par
Jim, did you see that ensine?'
Never saw anything piainer IN my
That was a ghost IL ever there was
one.
1--WE ran through it, says Matt. as
easy as " II was a fog bank. Well, II
ever ] get this train to Tiberius Centre.
somebody else will have TO take her
back
'"rhCy do say that when the express
came into TIberiua Centre that night
Matt mad 10 be helped on the engine
aud helped to nils house, and "a doctor
sent for. The doctor said the man WIS
suffering from ssyera nervous shock,
he sent In his resignation the very next
day, and never drove AN engine on our
road afterwards. Ist So
hard, and Keeping quiet according 10
the doctors orders. for. about a month.
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SAID TO BE"FLIM PLANNERS"
A Woman Has Wilson and Gardner
Arrested.

George Wilson, twenty-six years oil !. Of
Houston street, near Second avenue,
and Edward Gardner. who claims resi-
dence at both 81 Bowery and 9I7 Third
avenue, were arraigned in Yorkville
Court this morning. They are said to
be the most expert professional Aim
Hammers" in the country, but have
escaped arrest until now.
Mrs. Frances Muench. who keeps n
cigar store at go Avenue A, tells the
following story: She says that on July
% last the prisoners entered her store
and purchased two cigars for 10 cents.
Wilson offered Mrs. Muench 81 bill
and she gave him the proper change.
"Oh, by the way l have the change" -
said Wilson. as he fumbled In his pocket
for 10 cents.
The woman. however. says she saw
through the game. She told them she
would keep the 81, and advised them to
get out. Last Monday Wilson, evidently
not remembering that he had been there
before, called again. and went through
the same performance.
She Informed the police, and last night
Detectives Hay and Farrell arrested the
men on, Avenue A: The prisoners are
ers at 226 Avenue B and 2Gs and 2Ss Ave-
nue. A. Justice Mcmahon this morning
remanded them for further examination.
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STOLE A MUSICIANS GOODS.
Mr.. Woods Falls Into the Hands of
B0wery Man.

In the Tombs Police Court this morn
ing Robert Il. Woods. a musician from
Memphis on his way to Atlantic City to
fill an engagement, charged James Keat-
ing twenty six years old a waiter, liv-
ing at the Union Hotel, on the Bowery.
with larceny.
Woods was walking In the Bowery last
night He had several packages and
Heating offered to help carry them. He
gave a violin and box and an alto horn
the saloon OF John H. Kelly, at 223 Park
Row, where the property was left for
safe keeping. There was another pack
age containing shirts, sheet music, UNI
derwear and 50.
Woods and his new friend went out
and had lunch, after which Heating left
him and went back 20 the saloon and
got all the property and disappeared
Heating confessed to Policeman Fay
and part of the goods were recovered.
Heating was held in $1,000 bail for trial.
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SAYS A WOMAN STABBED HER
Mrs. Pearl Has Mrs. Rhcinhardt
Held on the Churur.

Mary Pearl, OF 3s Washington street,
was complainant In the Tombs Court
this morning against Mary Rheinhardt,
twenty-six years old, whom she charged
With felonious assault. The two women
formerly lived In the same house, and
Mary Pearl was housekeeper.
She moved about three months ago to
the next door. Yesterday she called
upon Mrs. Rhenhardt to demonstrate
with her about her children. Mrs. Rhein-
hardt was trying to quiet one of her lit
tie ones. who was Ill, when Mary entered
the room.
When she left the cradle to open Il can
OF milk with knife Mrs. Pearl It Is
alleged, threw II bunch OF keys at Mrs.
Rheinhardt, striking her In the eye.
This enraged the woman. and II Is said
that, armed with the knife. she sprang
at the Pearl woman and stabbed her In
the right shoulder. ON the head and
right hand.
The wounds were all serious. but the
complainant appeared In court. Mrs.
Rheinhardt was held In 500 bail for ex-
animation.
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LOST IN THE CROWD.
Arthur Harrison Reported Missing
by His Wife.

by HIS Wife.
Mrs. Kate Harrison. thirty-three years
old. called at Police Headquarters to-
day and asked that a general alarm be
sent out for her husband, Arthur, who
disappeared yesterday afternoon a few
minutes after arriving in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison have been EN-
ployed on a dairy farm at Tuckahoe,
N. Her husbands health had failed
and they determined to come to New
York and obtain other employment.
They started from the Grand Central
Depot west through Forty-second street
Between Fifth and Sixth avenues they
met a Mrs. William Fiikins, from whom
they expected to engage rooms. Mr..
Harrison then discovered that he had
left a valise al the depot and sent his
wife back for it; When she returned
that her husband had disappeared In
the crowd unnoticed by her.
Harrison had no money, and the only
valuable article he carried was a watch.
Mrs. Harrison is now stopping at Bre-
mems hotel, Ninth street and Sixth ave-
nue..
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peen travelling in search of her father.
h Mno Iett her an infant In war times, and
mas never been seen since. The heirs OF
MS property have advertised In New York
papers and she had answered several of
NE advertisements ana had gone to New
iork TO consult certain lawyers.
ABOUT three months ago Lena was here
ana told her foster mother, Mrs. Nc
mnahon. that she was married to William
LOWING. or New York or BROOKLYN. in
October Oct s las. Miss McMahon's name be-
brought here by Father MILAN twenty
years ago from st. Stephens Orphan
Home, New York City, and adopted by
people.
About three years ago man named
toley, who, did an insurance business
:.efe for short time, became very init
mate with Miss Mcmahon. About NAV
20 1882. they both disappeared and were
not seen until the afternoon of June 2.
1882. when Miss Mcmahon was found on
the bank of Neversink River in a criti-
cal condition. having been assaulted ny
the negro, Bob Lewis.
Searching parties were organized and
captured Lewis. Before he could be
lodged In jail mob gathered and lynched
him. y
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KILLED BY HIS PlAYMATES.
CoIored Boy the Victim of Two
Young Fiends in Texas.

TERRELL, Tex. Aug. lon the W.
C. McCord farm, near here, a most Pc
culiar crime was committed by two of
Peter Gibson's boys. While they were
playing with Murrow Jackson's six-year-
old boy. the Gibsons gouged one Of the
little boys eyes out with an awl. To
prevent him from going home and tell
ing on them, they then gouged several
holes in his body, threw him in q tank
and held him under the water until he
was drowned.
They then concealed his clothes in a
brush pile. The body was found and
the boys placed under arrest They
confessed to the killing and told where
the clothes were hidden. All three Of
the boys are colored.
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STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Many Theatres Begin Their Sea-
SONS This Month.
Teddy Pieper's European Trip POST
poned q Few Days.

With the month that Is ushered In with
to-day the dropping spirits OF the the
atriCal world Will revive. or make gal
liant effort to do so. The torpor of the
nlneties will ltt itself from q number of
theatres. and before August ends a
dozen metropolitan play houses Will have
thrown open their doors for the regular
season." 1t is difficult to believe in this
speedily promised energy. for the utterly
stagnant condition of the Rialto Is as
appalling as IT was month ago. These
unengaged actors, however, belong TO
tle travelling contingency. New York
Is an issue aside. ON Aug. II Niblos
Garden and II. II. Jacobs Theatre begin
their season, the former with Il meio-
drama called I'm the Name OF the Car"
the latter with Or, Cupid" The Co
lnmou; Theatre; Harlem. falls into line
Lights, and on Aug. - there Is quite a
Ut lie theatrical inundaton. for on that
date the Empire Will be frightened up
neodrama entitled THE Crossroads OF
Life" and the Fourteenth Street Thea
re Soo e"'fTS II the "e% s SsreeF With
revives "i4s2 on Aug. y, and the Acad-
emv Of Music deais in the same way
with shenandoah Aug. 20. The Bijoii
presents Miss Fanny Rice in Miss limo.
cence Abroad" and the Grand Opera
House and Peoples Theatre will also be
on the list. How nice 1t will all seem il
the weather will only be a trfe less
skittish!
Mr.. Teddy PEPPER does not sail on the
Chester to-day to Join Miss Lillian Rus
sell. Her interests demand that he re-
mai in the city fortnight longer, SO
IA q. mn q h.a Ias
ing on the 18th inst. owen Westford
and his wife, Susie Russell, will. II Is
announced. sail for London, on the
Isri ia ,,a,, IN, thls morning. Mr. Wes!ford
presnrio in The Queen OF Brilliants" at
the Lyceum Theatre, London. and Miss
Susie Russell is to have a small role In
the production. Comic opera wiseacres
wonder why MIR. Abbey selected the
gloomy Lyceum, identified with Irving's
big productions; for Miss Russell's APP
pearance In ENGLAND. a theatre be
comes known for one particular style
of entertainment, and comic opera at
the Lyceum is not quite the thing In
New York. OF course. II In otherwise.
the Star Theatre, he was succeeded by a
troupe of educated monkeys.
The scattered members of Mr.. Froh-
mans Lyceum Company. most Of whom
are In EUROPE must soon reassemble
i ne seusoH DeelnS III 'nlCaBO AT fiOOley'S
Theatre Aug. 10. Miss Cayvan will not
need any Worth gowns from Europe, as
she has to appear in knickerbockers in
THE Amazons." Kelley, however. will
probably return with n varied assortment
of startling trousers. w. j. lie Moyne
Fritz Williams. Gottscha:k. Mrs. whiffen,
Bessie Tyree and Katharine Florence
will also be In the cast.
Sousa is to play some OF the airs of
Little Christopher Columbus" at Man
haitian Beach. this week. He has also
captured the latest English concert
hall song. "E Dunno Where e Are"
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JUDGE HENRY HOLT DEAD.
He Was mt One Time Acting secre-
tnry of War.
,By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Aug. Judge Joseph
Holt, who was Judge Acknowledgement
Of the army and at one time acted as
Secretary Of War, died at his residence
In this city to-day.
His death was due indirectly to a fall
sustained a few days ago. but to which
he paid little attention.
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PENSION FOR AN INDIAN.
steps Taken to Provide for Arapa-
hoe Chief sharp-Nose.
(By AssocIated Press,

Tby AksocIHted FftbsI
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-Sharp-Nose
an Arapahoe Indian chief. Of Wyoming,
has been deemed by the House Pension
Committee worthy of a pension of $l2
a month, for his services to the Govern
ment as a scout IN leading the attack
on the village of hostile Cheyennes In
the Big Horn Mountains, In November.
1876, and on other occasions.
Sharp-Nose is now broken in health,
and the Committee decided to report a
bill for him. introduced by Representa-
tive Coffeen. Papers are on file signed
by President Garfield. Gems. Howard,
Crooke and Brooke, recommending
Sharp-Nose for Government aid. West
ern Representatives say that pensions
to friendly Indians have always proved
good investments.
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BOY BANDITS CAPTURED.
Were Bound in q Household for
New Orleans with Plunder.
tBy Associated press)

tBy Associated Pre6s
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Aug. Rob
Roy and Frank Egan, two OF the Nor
rlton band OF boy bandits. have been
CAPTURED eight miles below the city. They
headed for New Orleans in a houseboat
loaded with plumber. They admitted that
they we're suspected of connection with
the gang.
They are in all awaiting the arrival
of Conway County officers. 1t turns out
that the boat had been built for the pur-
pose of landing lumber at New Orleans.
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MARRIED ON THE LAWN.
Baron schlesinger's Daughter WEEDS
MIR. Perrin at Brookline.
(By Associated Press.)

by Associated Press)
BROOKLINE. Mass. Aug. 1.-Mary
Cornelia. eldest daughter Of Baron Bar
thold Schlesinger, late German Consul
to this port, and Arthur Perrin, of Cam
bridge, were married here at South
street, yesterday. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale officiated, and the wedding took
place on the south lawn under large
spreading oak. after the English custom.
While the Germania orche stra played
the wedding procession formed, with DR..
Hale and DIR. McBarney. OF New York,
leading II. Then followed the bride.
leaning on the arm OF her father, and all
moved down across the lawn. Mr.. and
Mrs. Perrin will spend the Summer In
the Adirondacks,