The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-26

not a drinking man as general thing.
l sha'n't say anything about it, But
if you'll take my advice, you'll not tell
that ridiculous story to anybody else.
Then you think 1 was drunk and
dreamed the whole thing, do you?' 1
asked.
"I don't think So says he, I'm
sure of it. I've just been over the di-
vision reports, and no such train as you
describe has been seen at any station.
Besides, 1 know where every. Pullman
car in the company's service is just at
this identical time and it's impossible
that Pullman should have been on
the Manlius branch last night. No
train of any kind went over that
branch between o'clock last night and
Z o'clock this morning.
Then I wish you'd explain how I
Travelled from Manlius station to East
Fabiusville last night between 9 and
II. [ can prove by the conductor of
the up train that he let me off at Man
Illus after 8 o'clock last night, and I
can prove by the landlord of the
Fabiusville Tavern that I put up at
his house just before II o'clock. A man
whether he is drunk or sober, can't
travel 70 miles in three hours, unless
he does it on a railroad train
The superintendent was a mighty
smart man, but this conundrum of
mine was more than he could answer.
So he only smiled, in an aggravating
sort of way and said: You'd better
take my advice and keep quiet You
know how down the directors are on
any man that drinks too much whisky.
Ii you go about talking of this adven-
ture of yours the chances are you'll
lose your place
Just then [ happened to think of
the piece of bell-cord that I had taken
from the car. I put my hand in my
pocket and there it was, sure enough.
l held it up and said to the superin-
tendent: There's a piece of the rotten
bell-cord that 1 told you about. Per-
haps you'll say I dreamed six feet of
cord into my pocket
The superintendent took it. and [
could see that he was considerably
staggered. You say you got this out
of the Pullman sleeper that YOU dream
ed about?" he asked
That's just exactly and precisely
the identical place where I got that
cord aforesaid, says I, as solemn as
II l was on my oath.
Well! says he, T take back what
| said about you're having been drunk.
That there cord hasn't been in use in
any car on this road for more than a.
year. The last car that had cord like
that was the one that went into the
MuSkahoot river. That's cotton
cord, and we don't use anything but
hemp nowadays
Then you think that I was on a
ghost train after ALL, says I.
l think, says he, that the less YOU
say about it the better-that is. if Won
care to follow my advice If you keep
on talking about it you'll have half
the tralnmen on the division watch
ing for ghosts and neglecting their
regular duties.
OF course, L promised to do as the
said, and [ never men
TONED the ghost train until this Dar-
tlcular superintendent had skipped TO
Canada with over 100000. He was a
most amazing smart man, and if 7
had gone against his wishes, [ wouldn't
nave staid in the company's service
very long. However, when I did he
gin to tell the story, nobody believed
me- except now and then an old train
hand who had seen ghost train himself
ana knew all about 'em. i've told Won
the story as straight as a die. and Won
can take it or leave it Just as Won
choose AS Horace saws. s"There.s
more things in heaven and the otbar
pace than any philosopher. ever dared
TO dream about -