The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-14

was a mutual recognition. The ham was
instantly forgotten in Amhorn's returning
wrath; gone were all his noble sentiments
it was his old neighbor, Abe Blaokman, the
slayer Of his pig.
They say that the record the outraged
George made for the remaining fourteen
miles into Damascus Junction will never be
equaled by freight train while the track
stands. 1t was done in eleven minutes and
fifteen Seconds, magnificent nightmare, a
tempestuous dream of bewildering speed, a
flight like one of the thunderbolts of Jove,
something to be told of in a subdued voice
as one speaks of things beyond ones
power to grasp. But almost before it had
begun it was over and Stubby Sullivan,
who was rumored to say his prayers to his
engine, was backing in with a powerful
mogul to take the cotton down the long
grades to the northward No fear that the
second section would ever crowd him.
A different kind of a spur was reserved
for Stubby. 1t came in the form Of a tele-
phone message that north from Damascus
Junction the Shore Line would split its
train into two hfteen-car sections drawn by
high-speed Atlantic type passenger en-
gines. 1t was a desperate move, an un-
usual one, and over against it the III. @, s.
held four minutes advantage gai-ed by
Amhorn's wonderful squirt, thirty miles the
shorter line from the Junction TO tie river,
and Stubby in the cab,
go it, old boy, co." yelled George after
him as the Special roared out through the
great yard. Don't be beaten by a read
that hires pig-slaughtering engineer Aad
may your ugly red head be mistooh .oT
runaway comet from the James TO the
Potomac"
"Move the cotton Beat the c,,c~c -
rang in the little engineers c..-s ~ 10
the everlasting glory Of ms road il acFse--
moved with the wind shrieking p1st jog
tornado and the hind braker1an yir to
recall "Now / lay me- At tra a. 50
that he was wonderirg Whether void
alight on American or Cenadst s.s IN
the train did leave the rails.
The telegraph poles made sold wall
and the mile-posts looked re { pic. It
fence" was the way he ales-H ard &C.
scribed it.
Two calves and a mule, Their 7e ne er-
HANGED three hundred per cent b. violent
death, were reported to the c'a.- f.
ment before midnight, but the rce -
moving. Steadily as a clock, {.fi IS az
arrow, Stubby moved It, his tace .- It'll
the light that C &c to kim --.-r in
the running. lie en- r-iIc. "a Ter
minute flashed by. Th-ou ne tss
in half as many hours fed ecas AL
until the miles ahcad ai er Is - 50,
melted away into two arl -~e
he All -l,- --F r.. 49,
monument came into sc'et o. q cn Cd
the pace slacken, ard tie sun ues 1ai firl'
when the long BRIDE acr, .0u K
vibrated under the speeding eruc.s 90 tae
w. G. S. Cotton Spec. fort .i-.'ls IS
ahead Of the Shore Line -Iin .,rsi 'i-e Of
victory. Dusk had not yet DIR WIEN
bulletins from Holcomb's otace were being
posted at the division points all LONG the
road. They read:
our Cotton Special. FIRST Fifty, b7ce, Of July
1913, reached Jersey City ffty-sevea minutes aead
Of the competing lines train. Congratulations to
all concerned. p. a. II"
To Anhorn and Sullivan went letters
that they will hand down to their grand
children
Two days afterward old George, tramp
ing home to supper from the yards, was
turning over in his mind once more the
flight Of the cotton trains and the events at
Dover Tower when he met Abe, coming
from the direction Of the Shore Line. For
one embarrassed moment the two men
faced each other in silence; then Blackman
hshed bill from his pocket and for the first
time in years he spoke to his former crony
Here's ten dollars for that pig had to
shoot, George" he said, and you're a
white man"
You go to Pittsburgl" growled Amhorn
"Ill not take your money. The pig was
worthless, a mere runt. And reckon you
belong outside the penitentiary yourself
Shake"
Il won't have it, tell you," Georg'
continued. The pig was the runtiest
ever saw 1t was disgrace to my family
I'm glad you killed it. I wish it had beer
two pigs so you could have shot boil
, of them What's more, we've been a ooupI,
: of old fools"
) amen" said the other. "An' suppos
: we both go down to Dover tomorrow ant
kick that little operator. Twill help hi
morals and It's something that he is hun
germ an thirsEin' after. What say you?'
"We needT90 responded George. !"
held speech VITA him myself while We wer
5 getting over the crossing And when
} passed through there yesterday he was stil
. doing his telegraphing standing up
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