Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-04-27
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the girl who likes to talk. He's the
president of a RAILROAD | don't care
80 much about merely seeing him as
do about conversing with him. |
should be satisfied with saying
few things to him over the telephone
If | couldn't do any better!
1T isn't that | want to rage at him.
| want merely to assure him that !
am filled with the deepest admiration
colossal and contempt for his fellow
man as sublime as are his!
He runs the railroad which is the
only means Of getting out of my sum-
heard vague rumors and rumblings
nf discomfort from the floating popu-
lation at the inn. who of course, were
obliged to escape by rail. In an in
dolent fashion | learned that nothing
ever occurred on that road III the
way that it should People rather
inferred that the train crews sat up
nights planning new and ingenious
ways to upset the schedule and keep
people waiting
To be sure 1t was annoying to
have to take train at II o'clock at
night but we got to the village by
dark and had our dinner. The bus
left at for the station mile away,
so we went in 1t. Three of us could
kill time easily, we said. We sur
vived the blighting depression of the
village station for half an hour and
then we took walk. 1t began to
rain.
ION going back we heard the bag
gageman saying that the train was
| forty minutes late, but thai sleeper
| would run down from somewhere else
earlier and we could get aboard that
and be picked up later by the train.
In half an hour the report was that
the sleeper was delayed by sand
| slide on the track We had talked all
we knew and were getting to the
point where We eyed each other with
growing dislike,
"A woman with five small children
added to the Joys of the evening be-
cause If one child cried all the rest
piped up and if they all stopped
| think she must have pinchtd them to
start them up again.
"Then Harry Gilfist burst in upon
his wife and me to report lunch
room a block away. We fled to it,
and started in on ham sandwiches to
kill time We ate sandwiches with
deadly seriousness, and then we be-
gan on the Gagged apple pie and the
petrified doughnuts. Harry reported
that the main train was two hours
late now, because of a washout.
THE rain poured down. The sta
ton agent slept on the table. The
baggageman said terrible things out
loud to himself and demanded to
know how any man could live on four
hours sleep day and why was
railroad anyhow? Mrs. Gilfist and
sat huncl4ed up in a dry corner and
yawned and Strengthened our hair
irritably, 'Whadyu say?
Down the track two men we're
carrying lanterns close to the ground
in wavering way. 'Wha-they doing
Mrs Gilfst demanded, GROSSLY.
They're searching for the train, my
dear told her soothingly. They
think maybe they'll find it slipped
down a crack where the rails Join
Don't be silly! she snapped. shall
die If l can't go to sleep!' And the
rain poured down in the miserable
black silence. We could hear the
agent snore.
"'There isn't any train, there never
was train and there never will be a
train on this line Harry Gilflst
chanted mournfully.. They put up
this station just as an ornament and
added the ticket agent for a touch of
realism. If he had Gothic nose,
now
1.-THE sleeper'll get here at 2
o'clock, they report said the desper-
ate baggageman. "I'll resign tomor-
row!'
land we have to get up at g.! said
Mrs. Gilfist hollowly. oh, how those
ham sandwiches made me feel!'
"At 10 minutes after 2 a train am
bled in from somewhere, and. reeling
from WEAKNESS, we dashed to the
sleeper end of it. I wish owned
this road!' | confided to the Pull
man conductor. I'd like to hack Il
up with little Ratchet and use it for
kindling' HUH he retorted. If
owned 1t | wouldn't take so much
trouble with it! I'd just step on Il
and exterminate it,
After hurting umbrellas and suit
Eases into our section and finding
without doubt that it wasn't out Sec
ton at all, because there was a man
In the lower berth, who was ANNOYED
because the corner of suitcase land
ed against his stomach, we finally got
adjusted and snatched about two min
utes of sleep, think, In the midst of
the switching and humping and bach.