The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-10

breath framing laws to make railroad pay for q pig they kill, 1t would be pet ter sense to pass laws making 1t peni- tsnttary offense for a person know1ngiy to, remain on the track as near as l,o0O feet to an approaching train.
 Another kind of fool is that one who will Eet out of his wagon as the trnin apprQaches, leave his wife to hold the as possible in order to get better LOOK at it. This is almost daily occurrence. and while the team becomes unmanage. able and runs off with the wagon aQo family. the fool husband waves his hand to every man in sight on the train, only to look around, after the train has pass ed, to see his children scattered over the sage brush l know a rushing train, as beautiful sight for the rural districter. but look at 1t does not pay for run away team with a mans family in it..
 q said little while ago that the big gest fool was the one who would stay on the track as long as possible. but T don't believe he is any worse than that one who will pretend to you that there is something serious ahead or you. He will point down the track and make all sorts of knowing gestures and signs. ne vert, bridge gone. or something nke that. Of course our training is such that all matters of that kind must be ponder ed over in moments time. We are com It.
 track may be giving 1t just at time when something critical is being consid- cred in matters of our meeting orders. Many a wreck Is caused primarily from this source and while the engineer gets discharged for the wreck which has cost several lives. perhaps the real cause of it was the unnecessary and lying signal given by the idiot near the track. ot course we do not see anything lo0 feet smart Idiots stand right near and give their signs. After while so many like this deceive .ns that it Is like the boy who was looking after the sheep. When the cry of the wolf comes in earnest we pay no attention to 1t.
 Another idiot that is pretty plentiful is the one who puts things on the rail- nails and small iron articles and tho ike. Of course little things like that don't children will sec that done and hear old CT ones tell of it. and after while some little fellow puts on a larger thing, and & wreck is the result. The idiots who have been in the habit of putting small articles on the rail could not be made to believe that they were the primary cause of the wreck, oh no; but they are, just the same.
 1T ran across fool just the other day, that seemed to be something new. At least it was the first time anything like it was ever played on me. It was at a blind siding where our fast train did not stop. and he wanted to stop us so he could get on As we pulled in sight of the switch there was man with his foot apparently caught in the frog. This is horrible affair. and of course I slowed down and stopped just in time to save the poor fellow. only to have him laugh an idiotic laugh and make a. run for the coaches. My fireman was big. husky fellow, and I sent him after the idiot. held the train just twenty seconds and you never saw so much blood come from one mans nose in your life The husky fireman pounded him, would throw him up and kick him as he came down, showed his head in the earth, twisted his legs and bent hia neck sidewisc. and finally wound up by dumping him out next to the fence. He will not stop another train in that way.
 There Is a farmhouse near the track about 200 miles out One day we were late. and l was making about a mile 3 minute down the long hill there. when 3 little tot about years old stood up In the centre of the track and started to run away from us. I was right on 1t child at the same time. Nothing on earth could save the darling. and knew It. but I seized the whistle and blew 1t like a crazy man. at the same moment re- vcrsing and opening the throttle wide. To my amaZement. a calf, frightened by the whistle. jumped into the middle of the track. and looking back at us, as they will always do for few feet, ran square into the tot and knocked it clear of the rails. as the calf itself went under the engine. Come. now. Jim. you have hug ged it long enough; get on and let's be going, was the first words I understood after l saw the little fellow between the who had come screaming from the house near the track"