The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-04-17

tho engine and put on tho airbralxe, and
the train was coming to a stop.
:. 1t was just second nature to any engi-
neer--and Jimmy Caswell knew well u
would be--to know that any human bcing
wouldn't do thing like that unless there
was good cause for the engine to stop My
fireman would have stopped the train IL
hadn't when he saw the lantern come in
but he says that he hadn't more than
heard the crash of tho lantern through the
window before he saw mo jump for tho
throttle and the airbrako.
After the train had come to q stop,
and !, without knowing what had really
happened, was wiping the blood Off my
face and thinking that somebody had
tried to kill me and wreck the train, that
boy camo running up alongside the cab,
painting, clean out of BREATH and climbed
up, all wet, into the cab. My gracious, ;
he managed to get cut pretty soon, did
hit your
" Somebody hit me-, says l. II don't
know who twas nor what twas.
~ threw my lantern at you says he
as cool as a frog
You dldf says /. Well, what did
you do that forS ~.
Z" To keep you from running into the
Dude, says no.
by this time he was up in the cab, and
he and tho fireman were sopping my face
with water And then my head was swim
ming around again, and l didn't know
any too well what was going on.
But by the time he conductor and
trainhands and about two-thirds of the
passengers had como swarming around /
was ablc TO order 'em back, and we pulled
up and overhaulod the express slowly.
Jimmy, he was full OF apologies to me-
My goodness, says bo, i hoped should
not hit you, but l was bound to stop you
anyway.
That's so, says /. Don't talk about
1t any more. l might have passed you and
never seen you, or if had noticed you
waving your arm by the side of the track
should have taken you for some fool of
tramp, and like as not paid no attention
to you and gone On at full speed around
that next bend. But, says |, you'd bet
tor go Oh to your own train now
~ wish some of you fellows would
lend me lantern, says he.
II looked at his lantern and saw that
tho glass had smashed when it went to tho
cab floor aftur hitting me.
WHATS the natter says l. Haven't
you got any more lanterns on your traini'
d rather go back with one, says he.
THAT made me laugh Ho wasn't go
ing to let on but what hod stopped MY
train in the regular way. And don't be.
lieye he did, There was no occasion TO re.
port it to anybody. That boy wasn't after
any hero's honors or any of that kind of
business.
But of course 1t came out, because,
though didn't ask for any leave, had
to go around for quite spell with my face
all plasterod up.
Doctor down to Yarmouth fixed mo
up all right. Jimmy offered to pay the
bill; but, bless you, I'D never let him do
that even IL the doctor had charged me
cent, which he didn't
II was mighty glad to get out of that
scrape with scar on my face, and reck-
on 1t won't amount TO much after it's
bleached out.
"How is Jimmy getting onS Oh, first
rate, guess. II they ever thought of repri.
handing him for not making sure that hp
had matches with him when he started
out to signal that train, / guess they 70.
flccted that he'd shown qualities that re.
doomed that fault and that the chances
were that he'd make first ratio railroad
man.
He's still braking on the Flying Dude.
But 1t won't take many years to see him a
conductor, You can depend on that -
Edison Kemp in Youths Companion