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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10

locomotive which. contrary to all rail-
road rhyme or reason, was running
inbound on the outbound track Billv
and the fireman both saw ft-and
turned pale 1t was so altogether out
of the sane horizon OF their experfenr.
1t was almost as il the force Of xravftOr
were suddenly reversed But n w..
there, sure enough. and drawing stead
ily nearer. Already the headlight ~.
abreast OF the rear coach OF Crawfor6s.
train. 1t crept silently-silently. ths-~
was the terror OF it-on and on. raIr-
,ns: saininS. until at last II flashed
beside them. neck and neck.
Suddenly il came over Crawfora 49,.
there was no locomotive OF honest 49,
and steel 1t was diaphanouS. ~.
could look through it and bevord -
catch the quick shadow OF the +a1.
graph poles as they hurried bv-cst-F,
700, tne gIeam OF passing lights. rfxht
Inrougn the bulk OF its huge boiler
Ana, moreover, there was no ors =.
the cab-neither fireman nor enss-.- -
20 guide It's headlong flight. IT wa. 49,.
phantom locomotive.
Auto on the Track
Crawford was not Ions in cor,,r
= -, uecision wnen this fact davvned mon
...s s.. iniuo- He had heard OF the warn
ms pnantom and he knew that ffs
n frr..
OF danger. which seemed its -.. s..,,s
lnce 70 avert. He applied tbe -
brakes without delay and as his 49,
slowed down and stopped the nban+or.. a.,
Vdnisned- Swinging to the gro1,nd .s1',,.. -.
ran anead- and there, Just In tbs o,,t..
sieam or his headlight. a huge s,,te
mooiie lay overturned upon ~ t.se,-
us frightened occupants cr.--1s..N,
stifiiy from the wreckaxe. The ..sa',s ,,,,s
leur had seen two headlights bss-s..-.
down upon them, but with bazv -,s -
nenorance OF a little dinner h,s.
nour or so before he was ,ot @ an
prlsed to find them dwindlc into o-r
such IS the story-in some os 49,
many variations--cf the phantom 1ooN
motive, whose visits are 50 auxioS,s1,,
desired at the new rcundhouse at We;
tacion, and on the tracks 81 tha pa,,
Snore euton. where it's presence FOR =
week or two would mdoubtedlv hrv~s-
good luck. Drins
me skeptieal may doubt these tala.
out tnere are those who know
among them Flaherty. watchman a. -
pig. new roundhouse at visitacion ...S
ne VIII not tell OF his own exDer,er~e sr.su
with the phantom locomstiw~-...ase aeise
least . the uninitiatsa ~
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10

invisible to all but Ames. he. poor
fellow, was rOundly reprimanded for
not giving the special the right OF way
and side tracking the freight accordin.s
to orders. He took his medicine quiet
ly-it would have meant discharge n
he had not been a good fellow. whom
the freight crew liked. and shielded by
Keeping quiet about the closeness OF
the call. You see. they all knew how
long Andy had kept awake. and all
about Betty Williams-matters of no
moment, OF course, To men who sat in
offices and issued orders. But not even
to these stanch friends. the train crew.
did Andy tell of the phantom Iocomo-
tVe-he was young and afraid OF be-
ing laughed at. When he grew older
and wiser he confided it to FIaherty.
who was at that time the star engi-
necr OF the Q. F.. d. Flaherty did not
laugh.
Billy Crawford Sees 1t
1t was only last week that Billy
Crawford saw the phantom locomotive
and twas not thousand miles from
Visitacion, where it is the hope OF
Flaherty and others who know, that II
Will stay for a week or two at least.
Billy Crawford is young man-iust
about the age OF that young Ames who
was saved by the phantom engine. way
back in SO. from a life long memory OF
horror But Billy is more talkative
than Ames-and, moreover, he was in
no danger Of discharge il the truth
became known. So his particular ad-
venture was good deal talked about.
and the story even spread beyond the
limits of the railroad fraternity. and
gave, indeed, the real impulse which
resulted in this article
Billy has the run between San Fran
cisco and Santa Cruz. Down on the
peninsula, not many miles out OF the
city. there is long level stretch OF
track, which Is as straight as the com
pany rules. Billy was on time. the
night was clear. everything eoinsr
along like clockwork. Billy had a-datc
that night with a couple OF fellows
just out from the east, and he us~
going to show them the difference he
tween wide open Frisco and that IittIa
Vermont hamlet they called a cftv H.
was planning a few audacious stunts
as climax to the evenings finn rvha~s
he became aware of strange 1;.hx
on the other track, coming. not frar~s
the road in front of him. but from ha-
hind De-
Crawford threw a quick glance ova-
his shoulder and made remark nc.
to be found in the printed rules go
regulations. The light came r~o,,- -
locomotive which was tearins -. .
behind him, on the parallel fra,s~"ss. Hs.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10
By F. Jay Cagy

NVR Fuk tie Ehantom locomotive
NJ vfsRt the new roundhouse at
w visitaotenf That II will do
90 - the secret hope nourished
IA the breast Of more than one hard
headsd cid reflroaduan, who would
scon AZ the idea that he was super
stttious-sud yet--weil. there must be
something in all those stories told by
lifelong friends and comrades Of the
rail.
Never heard OF the phantom Iocomo-
tive? More than likely. Men do not
lay bare 70 the casual acquaintance
these vague yet tenacious beliefs. But
in the cool shadows OF the roundhouse,
the snug seclusion OF the caboose,
among old and sympathetic railroad
cronies. the mysterious appearances OF
this apparition OF good omen. ara
soberIy discussed.
Old Michael Flaherty believes in it,
as, indeed, why should he not since
Quinn Of the r. s & P.-who was run
ming old number $40 long before there
was such a type as the big mogul-told
F1sherty. who was firing for him. all
about the AFFAIR at Platte junction.
That was years ago. Quinn is dead
now. and Fiaherty has had his day at
the throttie-lost his nerve-and a
railrosdman Stills reduced to the
post OF watchman OF the new round
house at visitacion. But he has not
forgotten ouinn's story, nor the evil
dence OF his own eyes-for he, too,
has seen the phantom locomotive.
FIsherty believes that the good luck
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10

waited. II cannot be denied that his
heart failed him and that he had a
quick vision of little fire lighted sit
ting room on Adeline street, where
Lucy and the kids were waiting for
him. There was little time to think.
The cab rocked and swayed with the
tremendous speed, the wheels screamed
with the sudden setting of the brakes;
the great yellow headlight. like an
evil eye, bore down upon him. He
clutched the sill of the cab window,
whispered a word of prayer and-the
headlights met. There was sensation
as of swiftly rushing air and tho
phantom locomotive passed through or
over No. Z, which came to a grinding
stop with shock which threw the
frightened passengers pell nell out OF
their berths, and sent the conductor
rushing, with his twinkling lantern.
to see what had gone wrong.
Quinn climbed down from his cab,
dazed and solemn. The white faced
fireman clung to his seat, unable to
move or speak. There's something
wrong ahead said Quinn. seizing the
lantern from the conductors hand. NO.
don't know what 1t Is Just sensed
it, guess. You come with me and
I'll show you"
The Trestlc Was Gone
Together they walked some hundred
yards or more around the curve. The
trestle over Hog gulch was gone
washed out by cloudburst higher up
the Sierras, and which had shown no
sign below. Quinn was complimented
by the d. S. on his keen sight and
quick nerve. He said nothing about
the phantom locomotive, but the fire.
man. who had seen it. too, was not
SO reticent. Quinn always laughed at
the idea, except when he knew his man.
1t was Quinn himself who told the
story to Flaherty.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-10

VIII come to visitacion and the Bay
Shore cuton, as It always does come to
any section of track over, which the
phantom rolls its invisible wheels. Not
that Flaherty has yet seen this ghostly
locomotive, even dimly, through the
gloom OF the roundhouse interior, but,
more than once, when he knew there
was not a Yeritable locomotive within
miles, he has heard the rails click with
approaching wheels, heard the weird
warning of a ghostly whistle, the quick,
sharp puff of the exhaust. the clang
of an Invisible bell-and, standing
back from the roundhouse switch, has
heard the phantom locomotive pass
with rush OF wind and run straight
on through the closed doors OF the
empty roundhouse, into its echoless in
terror.
And SO Fiaherty sits and watches,
hoping to catch glimpse OF this good
omen Of the rail, and pondsring mean
while. upon the tales of Quinn and 9TH
er true hearted and horny handed rail-
roadmen. from Billy Crawford. who met
the thing last week. to Andy Ames Of
the Santa Fe. whose experiences oc-
CURED in 80.
When Quinn Saw 1t
Quinn had the night run from Reno
west over the sierras-soo miles of
heavy grades, sharp curves and creak-
ing trestles, with deep and rocky
gorges upon the one hand and frown-
ing crags upon the other. He was q
bluff. two listed man with sort of
calm, good humored independence,
which was the bane of train dispatch
ers and division supeyintendents He
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
PROFESSOR H. H.
CHERRY'S ADDRESS.

the aelentless foe Of all forms Of arti-
fetal caste and industrial tyranny.
The principle OF Democracy sees
the world no longer as a divided
fragment a disconnected series of
spheres, in which various grades of
education may be sets hut as one
world, organism, single sphere in
is no higher or lower, no acadamic
arisctocraoy or detached group Of the
learned, but an inter dependant, as
ISOLATED common life" where men are
measured ia the spirit world and not
in the outwarn world. The citezens
persuing any honorable business, who
has the power of self control and is
a master of his task, is In American,
an aristacrat. The blacksmith who
hammers thought and conscience in
to his horseshoe and renders a noble
service to his county is as mnch a
martyr in the grea: spiritual enter
prise that is being developed in this
country as the indidivial who puts
conscience and thought into the per.
formance of his daily duties while oc.
cuping the highest position IN the
palaces of the free government Dem
ocracy is one historian who locks
within before writing an epitaph.
Democracy appeared on the deck
of the Olympia, salute4 Dewey and
declared to the world that without
HIM there would not have been a Man.
lila victory, but it did not stop here
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
aITTtNDtN COUNTY, KENTUCKY SEPT. 10, 1908.
Quarterly Meeting.

The quarterly meeting at Shady
Grove, Aug. lst, 1908, Bro. Tomp-
kins in the chair and X. e. Love,
p. f., in his place. The stewards
were not all present Sixty-four dol
lars and thirty cents reported Shady
Grove out Of debt or up with their
pastor. Good for Shady Grove.
They are putting up a good neat
church there, and the people have
already got a smile on their face.
The kind Baptist gave us the privi-
lege to hold our quarterly conference
IN their church for which we thank
them, aud pray Gods blessing upon
them for their kindness to us, and
they brought we'll filled baskets and
we all had a good time together and
every thing went smooth and nice,
plenty Of good things left to carry
back home and they said give us the
next meeting, but we thought il best
to give it to Rosebud. We had a
fine sermon Saturday, "Math. 1927,
3, 6 and Z chapters, my. myl how
the presiding elder did run the lines,
he never went around any thing, this
is the kind Of preaching that we need
and We all knew it was bible and
that is what saves the people.
We we're glad to see our old friends
again and shake their hands and
talk of days that have passed, when
we used to meet George Campbell,
Thomas Hubbard and Bro. Elder,
who w"r" stewards in those days.
We met some Of their children.
There are lots OF good people in and
around Shady Grove. May God 5
richest blessings rest upon all Of
them, is my prayers. W. j. HILL
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
NOTICE.
To my friends AID patrons

To my friends ard patrons;
| asked yen thru the Record Press
to come and settle your accounts with
me. as | had obligations to meet, but
you failed, disappointed me aud caus
ed me to dissppoiut others. So now
you have forced me to the expense tC
hire a collector, who hash t the auth.
crity to wait, or he inclination. So
those who want to settle with me
yon will have to come by Sept, 20.
After shat date all my accounts both
store and medical will be turned ovei
to an authorized agent, with instruct,
ionf to press collection So please
don think hard o' me, as you have
had sufficient notice. 49,.
Yours Very truly,
|. n. CLEMENT.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
NUMBER Is

1t went down into the hold of the
Olympia and saluted John Whittier
who in a tempatur6 of 130 degrees
shoveled coal into the engine and de-
clared that without there would not
have been a Manila victory.
j. G.. Holland, the eminent auth
or, wrote: - "No work that God sets
a man to do = no work to which God
has ESPECIALLY adopted a man powers
can properly be called either mental
or mean. The man who blacks yonr
boots and blacks them well, and who
engages in that variety of la
Dor because he can do it better
tn an he can do any thi ng
else, may have, if he choose, Just as
sound and true manhood as you have
not only after he gets through the
work of his life. but now, with your
boots in one hand and your shillings
in the other"
we hear much during this con-
structive, complex, and strenuous
century about democracy that will
introduce freedom and opportunity
to ever child in the land; and many
programs, platforms, and propositions
are presented to it as though APP
Piled and practical democracy were a
thing to be brought into existence
by some magic, prtifcacial process
as though it were thing to be
put together like a building which
should be big enough to hold us all
and offer a sweet repese negative
souls. We forget that democracy is
spiritual life that must be grown
and, if we would attain unto a full
grown democracy, We must first at
tain unto a full grown citizenship;
and, If we attain unto a full grown
citizenship. we must educate. A
great Commonwealth must be achiey-
/ -----------I
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
Something That Is Needed,
VIII Make a horse Lauuh

An uptown feed store, has been
opened by Bob Kemp 10 the room in
the rear of the building in winch he
conducts a meet store. Give him a
trial when you need meat for you
own use, or feed for your COW or
horse. He hasloos of hay. bushels
Of corn, and sack after sack of ship
stufis. Don't forget the place.
X. II. KEMP'S FEED STORE.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
School Patrons Will Do Well By Reading This Article and
Taking Useful Advice Given Question Of
Vital Importance.
MUCH BENEFIT TO Be DERIVED THEREFROM.

A. school time has come AGAIN thought would say few things
Of vital importance the teachers aud regard their children
open question children
equal the demands Of civilization When consider the the
development printing
feel that going take thousands of before all will
be fully altered the Of school conditions
print enough especially, when they apart
kindergarten notes
small type all that eyestran should be prevalent
school steady improvement
which h however Cor economical for enough Ev
school book should be type we'll spaced
paper Th. will the
lowest Bur the reform should stop there There is the
desk Each child should have desk him her and these
be had the Some schools them Where the desks
do h then the body being properly supported the muscles begin
dp his eye
troubles In other however
the main point and the child be scholar Child nature been
hdeus
child periods
deal Of their especially arithmetic should be
standing bAckboards which duess crayo
should have no home task all schools these tasks should
light though beyond that point they
part school life The light schools schoud
eyes light keep
sight Of the pupils Not scientific records but simple which wi
require her than hour of study understand and
sby three hour. the whole keep
of those children who fail the simple sight Notices
be the paen aud their notices Observed they
should be followed up by further
Myopia-Tbis sichtcdncss A near
sighted child well by but distance
play caught Myopia
children steadily worse The Myopia
of the enjoyment of life MyOPc children usually unchddhy
sober in demcanor
Then should child glasses? place any child old
enough study and who has study should
This will ways difficulty in seeing
pains an i'm
pout piece only
school the eye and this Every child
without exceptions should before cOmmecing school
in order prepared
now- under modern conditions absolute necessity
chance should be taken The idea
and less alike about that all
the height, weight color Of hair health
how people will their
backs when tired but tired
they will read the read when sleepy fine
they have but because they take pleasure though
bng all the time they will read and small
continual None these
they the spectaces
would otherwise be the with normal
reading later That though
likes the idea of pattng glasses still they will do
things which make the wearing OF - unduy early necessity
such forced
The simple they have ovworked their
penay When you have the light high
hold The
hold the print under when ache
headaches which headache powders
double and when trouble this
have them examined Let
morphine laod all
IN the when being fit with glasses
Some old people regain their vision
this isan abnormal condition of the lens otthe which
uuayit is followed by SLOWLY failing vision
that people glasses people
glasses for benefit derived lhen Later say
subject
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
Before I he Teachers Institute
Thursday Morning, September
3rd, 1908.
SHOULD BE READ BY
TEACHERS AND PATRONS,

Democracy belongs to one pol
itical party or social organization. 1T
is aspirits, an iualIeDable and univer-
sal ENERGY that belongs to the indiv-
idual. II is concept; an ideal a
spiritual leaven an indiviality; a per-
sonality implanted by God and cult
waited by man in the human breast.
Being a spirit it is not limp and
helpless thing with a hollow mean
ingless voice, hut rather a masculine
positive, rational and sympathetic
life that shoulders responsibilities and
trudges alons under them. Ii is not
a spiritual consumptive, a sissy"
but pioneer, a Ohm the Babtist in
the wilderness of constructive society
crying, Follow thou me" and, as
it moves forward the search of truth
it persuades, it eliminates, it chal-
lenges because il Is fearless and
able leader whose personality is lib
Gritty. Its life being one OF love, in
terest and duty, it becomes at once
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
N. F. P.

We read the poem in last week $
Pass.
And IL don I suit us YOU see.
For the Dycusburg yeller over
alls,
To be railing at VI. +. =.
VI. +. p. is all o. X.
He works lust where he ought to be
And you'd all do a sight more
good
II YOU thought like VI +. =.
re now why you're different
tho
You get your bed r'l.r' rec,
And get a nice little DO m,1'r
II you only rail at NJ. f. p.
You talk Of Rufus Robinson,
Who tells of countries free,
But if he'd do the proper thing,
He'd agree with VI. +. =.
Yet We know an attempt would be
useless still,
To make right and wrong agree,
So we'll let you say just what YOU
please,
But well stand byM, u. 7.
F. n. G..
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

Continued on educational page.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-09-05
Somerset Land Deal.

The real estate firm of f. II. Dry
den & Co, of Pocomoke City, has sold
large tract Of land in Somerset county
to some capitalists of the North, who
have project to bring settlers from
other States and foreign countries to
the Eastern Shore The company will
divide that land into small farms of
about go acres. and will put house. well
and small barn on each. and sell them
for small cash payments and long credit.
to experienced farm families whose
means are limited. but who have enough
people for successful work The COM
pany will also build canneries. creamer-
les and box factory in the neighbor-
hood. The promoters will ask the
State Bureau Of immigration to assist
in directing suitable families to the
Eastern Shore.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-09-05
Mrs. DiriCkSOD Dead.

Mrs. Eliza Blackstone Cummins
Drickson. widow of the late DR.. James
c. Erickson. Of Berlin. died Tuesday
at st. Agnes Hospital, BALTIC. She had
been in poor health for number Of
years and her death was not a surprise.
Mrs Erickson was native Of
Smyrna. and a member of the well
known and influential Cummins family
of Delaware Her brother. Mr.. A.
Lee Cummings is prominent employee
of Strawbridge & Clothier. Philade-
phia.
Mrs. Dirickson was always popular in
the home Of her adoption and leaves
many friends to mourn her loss. Her
husband. who died only little over
a year ogo. left her an estate estimated
TO be worth $50. 900 and she was pos
sessed Of as much more in her own
right. All Of which goes to her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Edward S. Tyler, Of Balti-
more. Mrs Tyler has one son. Mr..
Cummins Carey. who will share in the
estate OF his grandfather, DR.. Dirick-
son, at the death Of his mother.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-09-05

Miss Bessie Hill returned home this
week after pleasant visit 10 her
brother, Arthur, at lewes, Del
Little Miss Elna Nelson. of New
Church, is the guest of her grand
mother, Mrs. James Collins.
Miss Florence Marshall left Saturday
for Ocean City. 10 enjoy the sea breezes
for awhile.
Prof. John 5. Hill and his corps of
teachers. Misses Nellie Barnes, Lucille
Taylor. Edna Bonneville and Hattie
Colona have been attending the Teachers
Institute at Ocean City
Miss Cecilia Houston, who is home
from John Hopkins for her vacation. is
spending a few days this week with her
cousins, the Misses Dryden, of Pocomoke.
Prof. Charles Richardson and Mrs
Richardson and Mr. William Wharton
are visiting their parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. F. Wharton.
Mrs Thomas Wharton, who has been
recuperating at Clifton Springs has
returned home. much improved IN
health.
Rev. and Mrs. Townsend spent last
week with friends in Virginia.
Mr. William Taylor, Of Newport
News. is home for his vacation.
Miss Nora Shockley, Of Newark, is
the guest of her cousin, Miss Marjorie
Dsharoon.
Mrs. William Townsend and niece.
Miss Ina Taylor, after pleasant visit
with friends here. returned to her home
in Cape Charles Wednesday.
Mr. K. F. Powell andwfe and daugh-
ter are visiting at Ocean Grove this
week
Miss Lillian Waters will leave this
week to visit friends in Indianapolis.
Mr.. Claude Hudson and Mr.. Angelo
Tatman spent last Sunday with friends
in Ocean CITY.
Mr. Taylor accompanied by Mr.. Allen
Reynolds visited his family at their
cottage in Rehoboth last Sunday.
Mrs. f. J. Duer. of Pocomoke. spent
few days with friends here this week.
Miss Deborah Goodhand is spending
this week with Miss Edna Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Fister, who have been
visiting their sister. Mrs. John Dicker-
son, returned to their home in New
York this week.
Rev A. w Goodhand and family
have been visiting friends here for the
last two weeks Mr.. Goodhand. Misses
May and Margaret returned home We'd
nesday Mrs Goodhand will remain
longer with friends.