The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-11
WIND PLAYED ODD FRANKS.
Lifted a Train On Another Track and Backed
1t Out of the State.--Some
Well Cleaning.


clothes black unbacked top knob
reed hands and solemn sandy unshorn vsage stood
Sixth the Pennsylvania station the other
evening watching the dusrasng and paperscatterng ddoes of
lowering but nconsequenial squal from the West
Right cunnn little zephyrs, hant they? he remarked iron
cy standing little distance away from him. smoking
al a-half clay pipe.
TIL wind gets hull lot mussy round here easionay
replied the nch-anda-ha clay pipe
Wind said the with the bugy, blacglazed bag &C. in
OF stark wonder as ne edged to the side OF the man with
sngy pipe Wind? Neighbour you somethin
Up around ts-a-way you sure don't cali ee caress little
breezes these sch cute oddn little cat pod
ler, you up this-a-way, you"
Wouldn't t be rifn round down tn Potomac in op-
bown,'
noncommittal reply OF the with the closeaued pipe
the strapencircled sombrero looked panied
Stranger he inquired did you ever set loot in Kansas?
Not hout was walkin in sleep calmly replied the man
with the sawd-o smoker But they tell that she's hull few
out there wen it comes t wind"
Wind strangerwnd hoarsely exclaimed the with the
through OF of fine
which he proceeded stuff into his left cheek preliminary
extended conversation "Podne there's enough wind stored
e tn little outohay Kansas supply tn typhoon
belt o til South Fl a million years an repeat!
Say femme tell you somehin that happened $40
There's railroads parale1n each bout
yards apart runin' through At o'clock the
engine and caboo and all them openwork
loaded with sheep their Kansas City Fl shearn and
aghtern the track of the railroad the
while the engine takn The train stood level
stretch 0 track bout half a mile south O the
Long O them c1y green dipperandled clouds
and broadside that freight before the
Wind! Well. what dye spose happened?
Ihe wind O that sickly dpperhand1ed cloud e
picked that and carried yards through the air and
deposited es slick ellumbranch whistle the
the rival railroad the westward The wheels of the engine
caboose and all O them 48 sheepoaded down the
yards jes if they
had been runnn other the begnnin
raioadn O the Big Muddy, and, what's the psons o
engine stopped
that when lit the rival track the right pun
The train goin on all right toward Kansas City on'y
the track O the railroad that onney scky green cloud
suddenly swooped agn and blamed it didn't push that train
back miles cross the Nebraska border all the the
could clap little Roadway agn the wind
even hold his ground
made trouble that the rneasy green
d mere wa ant no way that the engine and caboo and 4o
sheoaded could be got back the track where they belong
ed from the track of the rival paleln railroad rail
road es engine caboose and 8 openor the
good tor the Court decided that the wind act of Providence
and couldn't be helped nohow and that ndns keens the
wind is concerned in Kansas.
But engine
all them had the consgnee of them 8 carloads of
sheep r their wool The sheep delivered in Kansas City all
right but there want airy
lis goud The jes ker-whooped through open
work and blew the wool off ev las of em es clean
if they been by
he green that did all O. this neanness was ony
fveeghhs of mile wide techd
grazing the outskirts But les show YOU
powerful the wind outskirts brohern-aw Jabez
Smukns cleann his welabezs well is 63 foot deep
from the surface the the adge o that
cloud come along past the we'll
The wind jes sucked Jabez Smukns my brother-naw
that well hs-tha 1853 foot deep-same he'd been
pump handle Jabez didn't mind though for besides pull
i'm him o the well the wind pulled all o the lost buckets and
gaPpn irons and muck we'll cleaned better
Jabez could ha done the job by wokin' month.
Yes stree there right toabe breeze close the
town where live o'clock the aftnoon o July the 9th
last year"
The with the clay pipe his
face long enough o inquire
speedy"
Wheeupon the with the strapencrced sombrero looked
ageved and picked his bacgzed bag and clomped into
the saton-Washington Star
To Richard Mansfield paid
tribute OF praise adding: Il suppose that when in the spirit