The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-23
STORY OF FALL
Experience OF Man Who Was brown
from scaIToId.

from Scauold.
"Many years ago | was at work pni-
ting up the large gilded cross which is
on Top of the spire of the Epiphany
Episcopal Church. We had almost
gotten The cross in lis position when it
careened over and fell to the ground.
Its was very heavy. and In lis fall il
brought down part of the seaifold on
which we were working. giving ME Il
pitch into The air from distance OF
about thirty-fve feet. Fortunately FOR
me. my fall was broken by part OF
the seaffold and | landed in the grass
plot. don't suppose ! was over three
seconds in reaching the ground. hut
during that time | went through Il
great deal in the way of imagination.
much OF which was 50 photographed
In my mind that | can never forget II.
Il thought that the fall had killed
me and that | went straight 10 heaven.
Arriving there | found that heaven
was very easy place to enter IL you
were on the right track. As saw 1t.
those who were destined for heaven
were conducted thither on kind of a
railroad track, which worked some
what like the cash-carrylng systems In
Use In the large stores. There was no
noise or confusion as on the steam rail-
roads, but everything worked very
quietly. 4 short time before the ar
rival OF the car word reached those
who were in charge of admissions, Civ
ing the name Of the party. Instantly
the record of the party was looked mp.
Though the examination was very rap
idly made, there was no undue rush or
apparent haste about it. A glance at
the record told the story. All the good
things were on one side and the bad
things on the other side of the book.
If the good things predOminated the
switches were so arranged that the
newcomer was switched into the big
gates If the record showed more bad
than good, the ear was allowed To so
right on without stopping. Where 1t
went TO | did not ask. though ! mag
,ned, having been church-g going man
lll my life.
I'm several cases that came along
while was there the record was about
equally divided, and without making
any determination. the car was switch
ed off to n kind of purgatOry, where a
more detailed examination was made.
| recognized several in this purgatory
place. one OF whom told me he had
been there for several months await
ing a decision. He said that for the
time those who were In the purgatory
were as nicely treated as though they
had been allowed 10 enter heaven,
though the suspense was somwhat an
moving. ! ran across an old friend. 4
plasterer. who had died about twenty
years before. When he was on earth
lie lived few doors from me, in the
locality known as Swampoodle, in the
northeastern section of the city. He
said that he had delightful time in
heaven, but that he was somewhat
lonely, as so far he had not met many
Of his intimate earthly acqualntances,
though he had been told they were
there asked him about some old
mutual lfleuuS. anu was palhco "
hear that they had not reached heaven.
The fact is, my friend told me, there
has not been one admission here from
Swampoodle for nineteen years
Il was not made insensible by my
fall, though | was injured somewhat
and had gone through the expert
cnee | have related in the three sec
onds or less from the time was pitch
ed from the scaffold until reached the
ground Washington Star.