The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-06
TIE WANDFRER.

THE WANDERER.
II Sec" said the farmer to the hobo whom 1
his kind heart had prompted him to take in for
the night tibet the Umpire States Express hes
busted her record
500"
Yep"
What's she tore off this time"
Dun mile in thirty-two seconds Whut
dye think o. that
"Oh, fair t'middn."
"Humph I'll bet it'll be right smart Of
while fore yeh hear tell of an ingine doin emmy
betern thetl"
Il amt told YOU yet how l come to git this
game leg, have 2
Yep; las time yeh was thissaway ysh tot
me It was sawed of ter keep yeh from staryin
on polar expedition"
That cert'ny was one more tough time But
l mean this time.
! Nope, yeh amt tor me yit."
Well when ! los tibet stilt was ingineer on
! the r. A. & B. out o. Houston, an our
from Houston to FL Psso. III yeve studied yer
| jogafy We know tibet it's straight stretch i'm
Houston ter Del Norty, an just leetle down
hill all the way, We had the super with that
trip an just fore pulled out he walked up
alongside the oil comeback an he SEE to me,
Jim, he ser
Thought yeh sed yer name was Bll5'
That was lore come ter Texas-'Jim, he
SEE, I got ter git ter Del Norty in leetle the
quickest time yeh ever made, an it an
the rest O. yer life ef yeh hit clip o less'n
mile a minute
j Hop on, SEE I, an lenme show We what
OF comeback kin do when she feels like it, an
reached over an pulled er wide open, Just
seen the super make a swipe at the grabiron
the last coach whikled apast him an we was
OFF on straight run o seven hundred miles
with no stops an no curves, an we burned the
wind You've heard the story OF the young Teller
who started to kiss his girl goodbye and the
train started off unexpected an went 50 fast that
he kissed COW in the next county Well"
"Nope never heard that story ; less hear it,
That was It, You must reeoetk we're soin'
fast an not maxim no stops now The TELEGRAPH
poles went past so fast tibet il looked like
r some teller was THROWN eordwood at me, an
when stuck my head out o the cab winder the
friction of the air burned of my whskers an
snatehed me baldheaded an'--well, | believe we
made lessn mile in fifteen seconds but
never knowed We see all I remember was
n putin the air hundred miles east o Del
a Norty and then we stopped at the station 50
hard that it threw me off my perch; an when
I come to ! had been in the hospital a month an
when | out I was the wreck We see. |
was the only one Of the hull trainload OF pas
sensers an the train crew that was left alive
Great gosh !"
Eyes, We see we went so fast that our suction
IL. pulled the spikes out Of the ties an brunE ties
u rails hshplstes an road bed hyir' through the
| air behind us, an o course when we stopped
BE- everthin else stopped too an settled down around
us an over as. The purse--an I don't believe
she'd lie-said that fer twenty four hours the
dehray KEEP hyn in an pilin up. II seems that
D the Jar OF our stop flung me down with MY prop
a in the freboN an it vas burned Off that's all"
n "Uh-huh Whut become Of the r. A. & B
road Don't seem like ! ever hearn tell OF il
before
r Nope We didn't; the company had so many
q. damage suits on It's hans it sold the right way
fer an rrigatin canal an went out O business.
n wal" unused the farmer when he had come
" down from showing his guest to the loft, fun
N he it I'm me ter ledge my Teller man; but
10 wouldn', be tall sprised ei that Teller made the
If story up as he went evons'
With the close Of this month many poo
s devil is deprived Of q privilege he has long en-
!. ioyed--voting .-RHansiS CoNHiy Ledger.
It doesn't worry our devil for he wouldn'
have been permitted to vote II he had paid
ID poll tax
=. We haven't heard OF any beauty contest tina
y is TO take place in Refugio, but one would thini
" that such is to be the case Judging from m
number OF male citizens that are Kidding thei
faces Of the whiskers they have worn for oh
as these many years,-ReinSio Repicro
~ In YET little while populism will be know
no more in the land forever.
81 Emperor William recognizes that the Ameri
A can spirit is a good thing. He calls u "Ameri
=, kanishehe gesischts1ue. '-chii6rsss fnder.
He'll md it TO be even worse than that IL n
doesn't simmer down.
:. whsn IL soms, 30 little ast,, dsnqsins li,,l
:, people, tAags ara IsMs II Llyingstsn WIS nssen
" take hack seat fer the smallest 10 ANY tewy
The devil viii have TO grind his sFlss sxsssdinsl