Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-12-26
pulled it out and then began specu-

pulled 1t out and then began specu
lation as to its sex. A funny fellow
in the rear of the car, who had come
up to sec the sight, remarked that i
must he male or else it would moi
have boen put on the train. W.
decided, though, that that wasn't {
fit matter for discussion. The super
intendent told one of his men to &c
to the rear of tho train and look the
passenger list over to see if there
happened to be any lady passengers
aboard. While he was gone we
looked the kid over. Its clothes
were tolerably good and it wore a
little blue cap. Now what is mys-
terry to me is why that kid didn't get
knocked scnscless. The train was
running about sixty miles per hour
until it slowed down and / guess she
was making about, well say fifteen
miles per Tour when the bag was
taken on. That was fast enough,
though, to kill the child.
owe examined the pouch to see if
there was anything in it that would
tell about the child. We found that
it had been placed in the end of the
bag on lot of cotton padding so
as to break the blow. You know
how the bags are placed on the
catcher. Gathered in the middle
like feather pillow, The catcher
strikes the middle of the bag and, of
course, the blow comes in the mid
die and on both ends. The kid was
probably sleeping when we struck it,
but the blow was enough to wake
wooden Indian. Now if the engi-
necr had not slowed down for that
light Pm sure the girl would have
been killed without further notice.
After we talked the matter over in
Cleveland we decided that whoever
left the kid lit the fire so as to make
the engineer slow down. The engi-
neer told lis that he noticed the light,
but that wasn't what he stopped for.
lie said something went wrong with
the dynamo that runs the headlight.
He was about to slow down to allow
his fireman to crawl to the front to
see what was the matter when all at
once the light in the headlight reap
pearcd. 'Gosh,' said the driver, 'if
slow down for every brush fire along
the line I'd never walk in on time.
But Pm mighty glad now that the
dynamo went crooked, cause if it
hadn't I'd 'er struck that pouch run
ming about sixty-five 'er hour. 1t
was the grace Of God This was
about as marvellous az finding the
baby. 1t was miracle that's what
it was. But the owner of that kid
wasn't going to take any chances and
have it's brains knocked out. You
can easily understand why that per-
son did't flag the train. 1t would
have stopped and then an cxplana.
tion would have been in order.
"But Pm getting to Cleveland be-
fore the train did. Pretty soon the
man who had gone to the slccpers
came back and reported to the su-
pcrintendcnt that there was only one
lady on the train and she was asleep.
I'll go back and wake the qucen,'
said the super. Well he did, and
bless my boots if she didn't refuse
to have anything to do with the
baby. She kicked about being
walked and wanted to know if they
took her for an incubator or found
ling asylum. | thought all women
were kind hearted until then. well,
boys, it's up to us said the super
coming back And it's been up to
us ever since. All Of the nineteen
men of that crew swore to help the
kid and now the subscription list
nets the girl about $500 year.
was given the task of nursing.
imagined | could hear the kid crying
for milk and an assistant nurse pro-
duccd can Of condensed milk,
which the boys used for early coffee.
| wasn't on to the curves of babies,
so poked it down with a spoon.
This, was told afterwards, pro-
duced a violent case of infant collie
which nearly caused poor little
Grace CHATS what we call hcD to
hand in her pass. Why did we call
her Grace Well, her full name is
Grace Woolford. After she had set
tied herself in my fathcrly lap and
every man in the car had pulled at
her chin, asking who her daddy was,
| suggested that now would be a
good time to name her.
owe were just getting into Clcve-
land then and man with pile of
letters in his hand suggested that we
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