Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25

sengers, rise and move toward the door.
Immediately the others follow, so that soon
the whole flock has risen and flown: the
condutor has shouted. "All aboard" the
train outside moves away, and again there
is dead silence in The cars"
Another Rush.
At 1885 p. m, a little more thai two
hours later. the north bound train between
Denver and Deadwood stops. Again there
Is the rush of the hungry, again there is the
clatter Of eating in the dining room. again
there is the struggle for food, the remarks,
the looking at watches and the sudden flight
of the diners when the twenty minutes has
expired; and again there is the contrast
afterward-the utter stiffness. The days
work is over, but the young women are
exhausted.
At night they are filled with fear; for
once they we're robbed and once an attempt
was made to burn this lonely habitation
among the hills. Miss Tyra McCracken and
her sister, Miss Alta, who is associated
with her, are in direct charge OF this un-
usual institution. Under Miss McCracken's
direction there are a cook, a laundress, a
decrepit old German who has charge of the
store car, and a boy, like the "fat boy" In
the "Pickwick Papers" These last two pro-
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night after the rush of the dinner is over
and the loneliness Of the hills settles about
them. the young women become filled with
apprehension.
Tension on the Nerves
When the elder sister lost some money
which she had left in her room she did not
! know who had taken It; she could only sus-
peet. And often when the night had be
anna b1aoL and che and har efafaF he'd ra.
tired to their car, they could hear through
the stiffness the sound of mel approaching
The steps reached the platform outside, q
tread and rumble like a wagon and horses
on a bridge. The foreign laborers were re-
turning from the mines to their homes IN
the village, and some OF them stopped, at
tempting TO peer into the windows Of the
cars. Sometimes those who had beer
drinking were boisterous, and the younl
women inside trembled. One night the
stiffness was broken by cries like those
Of a maniac. The inhabitants Of "Th'
Cars" awoke with a shudder. The weirt
shouts continued, and then Miss McCracken
her revolver In her hand. opened the dool
and looked out. A drunken man was r%eelinl
} along the platform outside. The younI
woman spoke to him and pointed with he
hand down the track toward the village
anu the lnSblid bAdb5NANh away III ina
direction, shouting and cursing as h
went. But that was not the worst.
; Clever Watch Dog.
= It was nearly midnight some days late
when Miss McCracken heard the barking
: her little dog outside. This dog. the watch
! man Of "The Cars" has none OF the al
tributes of the usual watchdog. exoeptin
I fidelity. He is a small cocker spaniel, wit
silken brown hair. a soft wriggling bod
. and a look Of humility and gentleness
: his eyes. But on this night the intensit
> Of his barking with a note Of alarm in 1
aroused the two young women from the
sleep. They talked with each other a mt
= ment, sitting up in their beds. The bari
= ing OF the little spaniel became more cal
9 nest. The sisters arose and one OF the
peered cautiously out into the night. 81
discovered at once a red light. and climbiT
q down the stairway outside she found that
y hre had been kindled under the car in WhiC
n she had been sleeping. The heap OF sticl
and brush had only started burning and Il
y flames had not yet reached the timbers
the car. The little brown spaniel was run
y ming back and forth frantically, barkiI
a necessarily and keeping his face toward Il
sr hre. A bucket OF water extinguished n
d. flames. but the fear and anxiety Of Il
10 tenants OF The Cars" increased. II
origin Of this attempt Al their destrueti'