El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-07
LINK AND PIN.

making a coupling. Il think Fike must
have it.
Nav" said Sam Il hain't ever had
enough money; have you ever had it?''
NO. Los Angeles and salt foot baths
are good enough for me-" answered
| Teg. but still wouldn't object to a
| trip into the Adirondacks if I could
get a pass.
Did you hear about Jerry and the
superintendent of that road he used to
work on in Kansas. that one that is
run by Divine help and no signal
| lights? Well. the general manager
and superintendent were going over
the road with Jerry. He was road
master. Standing on the observation
platform We're the general manager
and superintendent enveloped in a
cloud of alkali dust. Calmly smoking
his cob pipe. the roadmaSter, as astute
son of old Erin as ever bossed sec
ton. sat on the hand rail. A live lob
ster on; a cake of ice could not have
been any cooler or more unconcerned
4 'Ah-h-chew,' sneeZed the super
intendent, Jerry this dust is - ah-h-
ker-chew.'
WIS, sor.' Jerry was as guileless as
a lamb. He removed his pipe. spit
over mis- shoulder and waited in
to continue
Jerry. this dust. say this dust is
- ah--ah-ah.ker-chew,
"'Yis. sor.'
Jerry. don't you ever = ker-chew
get bay fever?'
"'Oi never do answered Jerry, ram
ming down the tobacco in his pipe and
taking a pun. 'Oi never do, me rank
amt hoigh enough yit, but l hope to
be able to some time. sor-'
THE general manager coughed. the
superintendent sneezed, Jerry knocked
out the contents of his old black pipe.
the specials wheels clicked musically
and Jerry hummed as an accOmpani-
ment. Jerry. go lie the car. me by; Oh
Jerry. go lie the ca-ar."
MARRIED A GHOST
And it's a railroad story you want,
is it?" asked T. p. McFarrell. rail-
road engineer from Oklahoma, at the
Plaza hotel this morning. of Link and
Pin, Well he continued when he
received an affirmative answer. did
you ever hear of anybody marrying a
ghost? know a young woman in Ca
meron, Oklahoma. who married
ghost and is living with him.
John Allen. of Cameron, was a
brakeman on the st. Louis & San
Francisco road and l was running an
engine on the same road. In awreck
poor John was killed. Well. he was
engaged to Miss Bessie Brown. of Ca
meron, and the wedding day was set
and preparations being made to cele-
brate the event.
1.-The news of Johns untimely death
seemed to daze the young lady and
she locked herself up in a room and
asked to be let alone. Her parents be-
came uneasy about her sanity and had
a physician to examine her to see II
she hadn't gone crazy. The doctor said
her mind was all right, SO she was
allowed to have her own way. Bye
and bye one day she became all smiles.
She told her parents that she had met
and conversed with Johns spirit and
they had planned for the wedding to
take place on his grave. The doctor
was called in again, but he said the
girl was not insane and she was allow
ed to go ahead and make preparations
for her wedding to the ghost.
'She rented a house and furnished it
and went to the minister to engage
his services to pronounce the cere-
mony. The preacher did not take
kindly to the wedding of a pretty girl
to an apparition and told her 1t was
sinful to do so. She insisted and final
ly the preacher and her parents saw
it was no use to argue and last week
they accompanied her to the grave
yard and as the clock on the old church
tower struck IL the ceremony was pro-
nounced on the grave of the dead
brakeman.
The next day the happy couple
moved into their new home, or at least
the bride did, and she says John is
there too, although nobody but her
has seen HIM She has the table set
for two and an apparently empty chair
sets on the oppopsite side of the table
from her as she eats her meals. She
eats and talks to the imaginary hus-
band on the other side of the table |
a ghost
Mr.. Brown, her father is a well to |
do citizen of Cameron and as he has |
the money to afford it he will likely |
furnish his daughter the means of |
keeping house with her husbands |
ghost as long as she finds comfort for |
her broken heart in such an existence" |
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Col. Beaumont, live stock agent of |
the G.. H.. came in from Victoria this |
The home of Jesse Vineyard, G. III. |
engineer, has recently been frightened |
by the advent into it of boy baby.
Mat Dubelbliss. a G. H., brakeman.
is sick with neuralgia. Matt will not |
even find single bliss in that affection. |
Newt Miller is filling his place.
L. Bourgeois. G. H. brakeman, left |
this morning Ior California to spend a |
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