Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26

Detective Ned Weldon entertained nis
brother detectives this week with story
OF his trip to North Carolina, where ne
went 10 get man who was under arrest.
He went to a town called Washington
which Is reached by changing cars at
Rocky Mount and several other places. On
the trip there he told his associates, the
train killed pair of mules, and the return
trip an amusing experience with a horse
was had. He asserts that the horse IN
question is a fast stopper. and can proba-
fly beat many OF the skates that are
known racers.
ION the way down to Carolina" he said
"the train came to a sudden stop, and It
turned out that a mule team had been
struck. The animals were killed and the
engine appeared as If 1t had made dash
through a slaughter house. By the time the
train was stopped and the crew returned
to the scene OF the accident the driver. an
old colored man. was more than half
mile away.
He had been thrown ninety feet by the
train and his only injury was a spralneo
thumb declared the detective
He told of his experience IN fnoing the
man for whose arrest he had a warrant
and Of the starting homeward.
II noticed the train going unusually
BLOW Tor = lOnS uIStdIlCt, Io Sdiu, 1HN
inquired of the brakeman the cause of the
delay He said that there was no trouble,
but that there was horse on the track
and that the animal would pay no attention
TO the warnings of the engineer A little
further down the track the train stopped
and the brakeman was sent ahead to drive
the horse off the track He drove the
horse, but not off the track. and there was
no relief in sight until the animal neared
culvert. Then the trains crew felt sat
tSAed TINT fbP track wOlld he clear
and the train could speed along and make
up the lost time
And what do you suppose the old horse
did," Detective Weldon asked the listeners.
He just waded the water and got back
on the track before the train reached the
culvert. A few minutes the train stopped,
and the brakeman said: We done caught
him now. Sure enough the train had
overtaken the horse. and the animal was
put out of harms way
Il guess that must be true" broke in
Detective Father, for the horse Is IN the
depot now waiting for the train to start
back
The developments in the Post Office De-
partment." said Senator Cullom few days
ago. remind me of the early times In ILL.,
nois when Lincoln was the postmaster of
the town of Salem.
The cash drawer of the post office there
was Lincoln's vest pocket, but 1t was
cash drawer that was sacred to him. I re-
member on one occasion when a post Office
inspector came around and made careful
survey of everything in the post Office. He
took account Of stock and figured out just
how much Lincoln ought TO have in cash
belonging to the government Some Of Lin
coins friends were afraid that he might
be a little short. and went to him with Of
fers Of money II he needed 1t. He replied
that he guessed he had It all. When the
Inspector figured out the amount that
should be there be went 10 Lincoln and
told him how much cash there should be in
the post Office.
Well. I guess have it, said Lincoln as
he drew forth bundle of money.
He counted it out and 1t tailed to cent
70 the amount the inspector had found due
the government Lincoln had kept the gov
ernments money separate at all times. AL
though he carried II around with him as
the best method of caring for IT, he had
never allowed 1t to become mixed UP with
his own money. That incident was charac-
terlstic Of Lincoln. He was scrupulously
honest"
On recent occasion when Senator Hanna
was entertaining a company of his friends
In his Office at the Arlington the CONVERSE
ticn drifted to Virginia and the way the
Virginians look upon the politics OF the
G->t-
"oh," declared the senator, perhaps you
don't know I have some claim to being a
Virginian my elf"
There was general surprise and the sen-
ator continued:
Yes. my grandfather, together with