Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-07-13
Ge0rgie's CAB
Preaching on Railroad Trains.

That's one or the Best plans l ever
herd Of" paw sed last Mite. after nav
Got thru putting POletuss on His
sore thum.
"What Is" nav told Him.
"Thay are Going to have preacher
on Ralerode trains that Run on Sun
dies" paw anserd. ITS CRATE thing.
/ tell you what it's pity Sum Of Our
ancestors that thot they New a Few
things Can't come back here and see
what naige Of progress Is with Steam
up"
ut duzzent Seam to me they are
emmy sents having preaching on
Trains" nav says. II think 1t
Would be r0ng to Do sutch a thing
too. 1t would seem almost Like a
SIM"
"Oh shaw" paw told Her, "they
wouldn't be Ennything rong about
1t. People thai wouldn't want to hear
the Preacher wouldn't Haft to. They
could Go In the smoker Car and make
the Limmut five sents corner or
sumthiug Like that. But they are q
Hole lot of Good things about the plan.
One Of the Best Is that 1t Would make
more Jobs for people that have to
Good neducashun to lamp ties and
Are too proud to Begg. Just think
what a goddsend it Would be to some
Deserving yung men That never had
goddsend Before II Every ralerode had
Its regular preachers the saline as II
Has conductors and Brakeman and
Candy butchers. Then they Could
have the ralerode preachers union too
and mebby Get bubble time for Work
en- on Sundy."
After nav thot about 1t Awhile she
sed:
"They won't never have emmy sistum
Like that beooz the ralcrode cumpneys
wouldn't want to pay out So mulch
mummy. How could they afford to
have a preacher on every train, and
mebby not even Half of the lower
Burths taken?"
'They wouldn't need One for every
trane," paw told her. "Sposen the
preacher Got on the 10 o'clock trane
going South. He could save all the
soles that needed 1t BY the Time the
Enjunneer whlssled for Kokomo, and
then Catch the 'Leven twenty Back.
maxim thurty or forty sinners on the
Return trip wisht they were nobuller
and better men. If he Got thru with
the Summon before 1t was time To
start out on the next run He could
pass around Dodgers amung the saved
saying 1t was the shortest and most
Direct line to the East, west, north
And south, Landing you in the very
Hart of the sittie, and II the cumpny
had emmy tiubble sGetting bizness
from the Other lines he could say
sumthlng In his Surmon about the
danger Of Going to Publisher or Fort
Worth by emmy other Root. The rale-
his Bizness all rite and Just think how
1t can be Carried on from One point to
anuther. After the sistum Gets to
working They can run Sundy golf
trains with Preacher going and COM
Ing. and In that way make it soast
they needn't Hardly ever be Sollut
terry foozle approachen the Heyenly
gates. l spose 1t would Help travel,
too, Becoz lots Of people that Don't
play on Sundies now would Think II
was thare Duty to encurridge the rale-
rode cumpny In Its nobul Effert and
Go to The link and Play from Nine in
the morning TIL four In the Afternoon
to sho their Good faith. So the preach
er would More than ern his salery rite
there.
After nav thot about It While she
says: well, It's Nobul plan emmy
way. spose they are sum people can't
Hardly help travvullen on Sundies,
and II they can be saved by the rale-
rode preachers It's SO mulch the Bet
ter"
YES" paw told her, "But they are
one thing mite work aglnst 1t some.
II the Trane run over q COW or struck
Sharp curve about the Time the
preacher got to Thurdly or Forthly
and Threw him In a mans Lap that
wade two hundred and sixty Pound
from Dallas texas they would be more
Harm done In about a minute Than all
the Good the preacher amounted to in
Six years. People that amt Got time
to stay Home and git Safed won't
never catch up with mulch Sal vaishun
ging sixty miles a nour. and Flask
In thare pockut.'-Chicago Times Her.
aid.