The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-11

No 5Na enjoys A good story better than
w Psarce. who work. IN The office OF
Frsstent Farrell. OF tas Pacific Coast Com
pdfy. h'or that matter. fex men car tel i
story better. TO Little group OF friends
Yesterday Mr. pesrca gays. the following
narrative. though are story tsss-zs sonnet .ssng
OF it's graphic Interest when IL Is set up IN
cod osa~k and while.
Il was hack few years ago, and IRE
a1ene % the story was along a railroad
walsh had suffered the severe washoQts Of
the floods % toe syEtng OF isA. Recar-
sfrEcfioE WAS Just beginning. and tre-.iss
ware threading themselves through the air
with the nrsness ana rapidly OF spiders
webs
AT this time there came up the sne a
well known sister from one Of the charisa-
e3e institutions 81 SEATTLE Il Was her Gus
tom 20 go among the railroad men year by
year 20 secure subscriptions IL support OF
ire Institution with (Which she * con
recf@d. she had A happy faculty Of ssrik-
ing the Eie1 just about simultaneously with
the Esay-tralr. and the men. seeing her elar-
sy ami sincerity. we're not slow 10 fatssn
her .sw pirse !. wa. r,,,sr ,o,ss ,,r. WHOM
she GAME along four years and more ago.
The road had been badly washed olt, and
no trains We're running, l told her | was
goiHg down 10 the bridge where the men
were az work. but that / had 20 travel on
haudcar. She said she would go with
me When We came 10 the washoos, ne
found that plies had been driven and a sin
9se S1rsnzer bad been laid across the caps.
She MAS uEdaanted and said she would
cross with us The. bridge constructor wen;
ahead tae woman and little girl by nnoni
sse xas invariably accompanied went next
and brought up The rear. Far beneath Us
the river swollen by fresh mountain tor
rents Mas roaring and rushing al a fearful
rate. noticed that the woman Wore az
her gfTSile. suspended by a shoulder strap.
a kind Of wallet. which she seemed 10 guard
with particular care.
We made the perilous trans., In safety
but Jus's as We reached the further hank.
the sister csasped her hands 10 her side
WITH gesture OF agony and cried: My
glanced backward. and there sure enough.
borne on the bosom Of the foaming and ed
aSTng water, was the wallet. Not Il mo-
men. was TO De lost IL the wallet was re-
covered. Vet IL WAS as much as a man 3
NE was worth to venture in that Hood.
Al this m3ment. as We stood hesitating
on the bank, l noticed little dog WHICH
seemed 10 be an attache of the raIlroS9
camp he was a most unpromissng look
ing specimen In his veins seemed 10
course the blood of ii dozen different breeds
In plain English he was a rnongrsl and an
oufca.st. Bu; his small, furzy frizzIy boiv
looked alert and active, and an inspiration
seized me. | called him to me- ana point
hg ouf ever The raging torrent sought 10
call his attention 70 the wallet He saw II
ana oy one OF those quick flassses Of intel
ASence bS which man is sometimes able 10
ccinfnunieafe with The so-called lower AMI
Hhdls, asked him 10 so and get it He
hes.tated single instant, apparently TO
Then he acted.
Never tel me again that dog cannot
Jason instead OF starting straight for the
wallet. ne took deliberate estimate Of the
force and swifiness OF the current. Then
ne started down the river bank He ran az
last ~ ne could until he was some $50 feet
heiow where the wallet was floating Then
ne started from the bank for mids.rea m
"A cifii engineer could not have gagged a
resultant force better. He struck the mid
die OF the channel a few feet in advance ~
the wallet waited for H. brought i, 10
shore and delivered IL. We opened IL i;
was bursting with greenhacks. The men
IaIssseG re dog. and the sisters mission
aent. | saw her the other day In passing
sae recognized me. Ii called up the Incl
ocnt, which have not talked about since