The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-08
How Eli Perkins Lost His Reputa-
ton

7 have travelled over the Alps when
We started on wheels I'm Italy, were put
On runners at the monasLerles o. 81.
lsefnaiu, ana the neSL CaJ CAME ~. 15.iTg
Gown into the wheat fields o. SWIszer-
land ana the Rho4e SAYS al Perkins IL
the Magazine Of Travel Then J. have
Jinrikishad through japan, and wheelbar-
IoWed ia China But the most exciting
Trip OF my life was taken in our oa
country, our IN Iowa IL was one Of the
coolest nights % COL water. lel-
tlfed iof the college at CsaBe City, nor b.
east from Cedar Rapids. one nleh-. AID
the next night 4 was TO Doe in go GII1-
neil College, near Des Moines. i hat 10
roe down through inc central part OF
Iowa. OF the Old Iowa Central roaI. TO
90 this / was compelled 10 drive thirty
lnlies across the prairie, from Usage
10y To Mason CITY. "a OEUer 10 strike a
@ clock morning train for GrlAneM
4 ~ miles over the prairie in a Eoc, d
west storm. Win the Thermometer 10
eeS1ees or;oF zero, was test Of slrenStn.
nerve. and bodily ca'oric. but We MADE
me ulp- once our sltiEn slipped C-'r,
ana our BLANKETS and robes blew away.
II was a hurricane. and even ou- nos
soapstone took 10 the wind. once We got
70 c.scAns around on that rhir-i n.ile
prairie, and Ire driver threw up his
Iozen hands and screamed.
ives loser
But the stars came ont. and we WI .,lad
Ground .,It,i toward The north star ara .,r1s-
IN The gray Of the morning with what
Joy we saw the struggling lights OF the
or ogW people, / remember well how 7
rolled out OF the slei-h and totterad Vp
70 uhe station door. * was all dark with
Ina. L knew the morning train aaGn
gone W e had won, but Oh, with Hhat
cost
Knocking on the door. then pounding
louder the agent finally opened IL.
Has the 8 o'clock train gone south to
GllnneHt' l asked, with tremulous
voice.
HAS the train zone sOutb2"
re looked at me in amazeneat, and
Gone. man. Gone? Why. She went
las September she - a Skinner ira IN
Hut." ard he look-d kindly az ne. she
VIII 90 again i'm June. If you must go
on her you can sit around here in the
depot and wait
What did = dO2
Why I went right over to q log hotel
and vent 10 bed, ana sleep smotSo. Cd
sleep. Sleepi
At 10 O'Clock I crawled over TO the depot
and Op ned the wires on Pre- igeut j. b
Grinnel of the Iowa Central This. by
the way, was the original man whom
Greeley told 10 go cst.' Grinreli Went
west. ana il was hc VINO founded the civ
o. ,1finhv.i- where Z was 10 lecture. He
built the college there. Tie railroad, the
town the college and the lecture course
We're an ms; And threw myself into his
please give me an engine. Get nc to
Grinneu tonight
Ally ftlhfL4- tt'Allt- 7 ans AT III lsOl.
CITY? il so, send Pc hins down." came
over the wire from Grnp-i.
NO. wants a new FIRE box went the
answer
20 *. Send with Perkins. Get him
here or Kill him. replied Griunel.
In thirty minutes we We've on We went
bounding over the OLD iron rails b-tweeen
AckleN and AttrsGailtOWu and how We
flew Villages became splotches of maroon
paint. .le-e- .aph poles blurred like wagon
spokes iu The sun.
saaF f.sfI Ttrr# -.4
the sound into MarShall-oWu. and rms
agent care out and looked the wrong way.
We had PASSED the town. and the whistle
won. we GOT to Grinnell and struck The
audience on the stroke of s. President
Grin1cli hadn't to't them about the ride.
The audi nee thought I came on resu-
lar tire y or drove over from The next sta
ton. When Z tried To tel them about my
"trip they only laughed They didnt be-
heVe me. Alas. that was the daN-that
was the uight-that l LOST my reputation
for veracity, and all these years l have
struggled to get il back ] am Nestry-
Mems Christian Association. buJ nothing
viii get back my lost Ve-aciJy, except,
perhaps, this open cCnfessiou--nOw for the
first time made.
When I asked the venerable President
Crinnell. years afterward. now h. came &c
telegraph: Get Perkins to Grnneil or Kill
him" lie said:
"IVef. nv son. you see was rann,re.
for CONGRESS- then, ami dan.t have any
record 10 run on. All hoo done was TO
condemn land FOR rieht-of-way ana kin
immigrants or Cur trains I was dying
for n record 70 run Du-0nc that would
bring me the sympathy OF the people. ard
& occurred-wind me- he said il slowly:
iii simply occurred 70 me as a business
mani beg pa edOp for saying il. T." and the
tears come 20 his eyes-"but It occurred
to me if you could be killed on oUr trc IN
then. and TIE people should find it out
why. I would he nominated and unani-
I mOnsly elected