The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16

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out first getting solid with the dog As
popular report credited Bendgo with a
collection of samples from the fair An
MES would-be admirers. Joe had been
! forewarned. When Bendigo came tear
| ing through the gate, his wrinkled muZZIe,
| cleaning fangs and erect name, e.Oquent
| of his intentions, he found nobody there
but his very good friend. Joe Halliday
| Joe soothed his disappointment with scraps
| from his dinner paid, patted the great head
| affectionately and resumed his homeward
| course-vowing to get square with OH
Dave, if he had to steal Annie bodily
! In the meantime, poor Annie went about
her work with dropping head her long
lashes dainty brushing her flushed
| cheeks, accepting in silence her fathers
! caustc vituperations. 50 that's what
| all that eXtry whistlins fer, down here Al
| the yard block hey? Thought twas for
| his mother to have his breakfast ready,
| grunted Dave. who knew a thing or two
! himself.
1t now became impossible for the lovers
! to meet, except, when Joe came in on
| Dawes day out; but when that combina.
ton occurred, a strain was put upon the
| gate hinges, and the blue ewes and 4ba
! ing, While savage Bendigo lay contented-
! ~ at their feet
Joe pleaded his cause with the eloouence
| of desperation; there were no little broth
ers or sisters to be cared for; nobody al All
| but Old Dave. And he pictured in gov
ing colors The contrast between this and
| the life she would lead as his wife in the
! handsome cottage just being completed
near the church.
But her unvarying answer, delivered in
| that monotonous tone which sounded TO
Joe like the wall of utter hopelessness
was: Il can't: O. Joe. I can't Not while
father lives. Who but me could get along
| with him? Please don't ask me, dear"
And so two fond hearts incurred.
Joe proposed tackEng The old man him
self, boldly demanding his daugh 5er's
hand; but Annie begged him not to i'm
peril what little comfort she had in life
! To his suggestion that she might be able
to talk her father over, she replied that
she had never known him 10 recede from a
position he had cnce taken. So they were
obliged TO content themselves with such
| clandestine meetings as they could get
though they found them far from satlsfac-
| tory.
Old Dave had run one side of the steam
boat express for years, and he tyranized
over his partner. easy-going Harry Joyce,
as he did over everybod else Dave owned
the engine, and no disputng that. In the
her; there was no disputing that In the
| Big blizzard of IS poor Harry stayed with
her in a snowdrift for thirty-six hours
and went home and died of pneumonia
| week later.
Everybody said it was happy re-
lease.
John Halliday, being the senior freight
engineer, was promoted to the vacancy.
Here was combination with vengeance!
Joe would much have preferred that IL had
been somebody else's turn for a passenger
train. Annie was thrown into a state of
mind and al hands on the road kept Their
ears metaphorically inclined for the explo-
sion. Dave said nothing, ana nobody had
the temerity to ask his opinion.
There was one enormous gain. anyway;
Joe and Dave were never a home on the
same day; consequently the proverbially
rocky road of true love Immediately as
sumed q smoothness most delightful With
Dave $50 miles up the road. the young
couple felt safe in deserving the gate in
favor of the parlor
The steamboat train was always late
On this end the steamers delayed it, any
where from ten 70 thirty minutes and, of
course, lots OF things can happen TO lay
out a fast easbound train between Chicago
aud tide water. Dave had always oppos-
ed tearing the engine to pieces and burning
coal 10 make up an extra five minutes. So
poor HarVey-for the sake of peace-had
always run just as Dave told him to. But
Joe was ambitious; o}d-foggy notions has
no charms for him He began making
changes at once. He keyed her up all
round took up lost motion all over her,
started up the feed on the oil cups, crawl
ed into the front end and did things to the
diaphragm and nozzle, and swedged open
the meshes of the spark netting TO let her
breathe. He got the waves reset. by
promising to stand between the round
house foreman and cranky Dave. He IA
miliarized himself with the mastered her
pet vices spread the light 20 the conduc-
tors enthused The fireman, and went for
a new record.
Joe said nothing 10 Annie of the new
methods he was inaugurating but her Ma
Their became well nigh unbearable; so The
law of compensation more than evened
matters UP.
Dave snorted about in futile rage for
week He told his troubles 10 no one;
would hardly admit their existence him
self II was incomprehensib.e that "a kid
Just off Of freight should presume TO maui
about and overhaul his engine. But there
was no let-up to the desecration, and at
last it became unbearaole; so down he
came one morning before Joe got away.
Stepping up 10 him with The air of a man
who was bound to do or die. he said:
Say. young man, if YOU can't git a.ons
with this engine the way she is, you bet,
ter look for another job; I'm gtun ABOUT
sick o this monkey business. l run 'et
quite a spell fore you got round, an
| she allus made out to get thar with EN-
| Joe would have lkied 10 cOnciate An
! MES father. but he knew the utter futiuty