MORNCTG E-NTERPRlriE. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1912.
ANKOUN'C
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THE
A Mystery In
A Freight Car
. By ADOLPH SNYDER
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Copyright by American Press Asso-.
elation. 1911.
- I am a brakeman on a freight train
One day during the winter season,
when we had come to a stop, I was
walking alongside the train and saw
a thin smoke coming out from under
one of the cars. Thinking it to come
from a hot bos, I stooped to examine
the .truck, but the imnning gear was
as cool as a cucumber. Then, looking
up, I noticed a small tin pipe protrud
ing from the bottom of the car,
through which smoke was coming in
little puffs.
"Well, I'll be Jinged!" I said to my
self. "Here's a freight car. sealed with
lead, that hasn't been opened since it
started three days ago, and a steam
engine in it. Am I in my right mind,
or have I tumbled off the brake wheel,
where I was sitting a spell ago."
I stooped a trifle lower and craned
my neck in' a little further In order
to get a better view. There was the
pipe, evidently a part of a leader from
a gutter belonging to the roof of a
house. It extended a few inches
downward, then turned with an elbow,
the second part extending about a
foot rearward. As I looked the puffs
continued as regular as those coming
from a locomotive making a steady
gait.
What to do I didn't know. I was
afraid to notify the conductor for fear
I'd find out that I'd had a stroke and
saw things that didn't exist. Some
thing occurred just then that made
me think I'd surely gone daft. I heard
a girl's giggle.
There wasn't any connection between
a steam engine and a girl shut up in a
box car, especially a sealed box car,
but there was a good deal to excite
curiosity. 1 stopped m worrying about
myself and began to wonder what
there was inside that car. 1 stood off,
looked at it and walked all around it
A freight train is made up of differ
ent kinds of cars, and this car was es
pecially different from the others. It
looked as though Jt might have been a
caboose turned into a box. The thing
most noticeable about it was a door at
one end. Why I hadn't noticed this
before I don't know unless it was be
cause the end was only about two feet
from the end of another car.
I saw that there was or bad been a
lock on the door. There wasn't any
knob, but a nail bad been put through
the screw hole of the steel piece on
which the knob had been fixed. 1
climbed up on the coupling and tried
to turn the nail to open the door- 1
didn't succeed. I listened, but every
thing was still. But I didn't forget that
giggle, and pretty soon 1 knocked. In
a few moments I heard whispers with
in. Then all of a sudden the door was
pulled open, and there stood a boy and
a girl.
Besides these. I got a view of the
car. There was a carpet on It. the
worse for wear; in one corner was a
mattress with bedclothing: in the cen
ter was a pine table, and at one side
was a cook stove. And 1 noticed that
the stovepipe was run down instead of
up or horizontal and passed through a
hole in the floor."
"Please don't give us away," said
.the girl, going for me with a pair of
blue eyes not many could resist.
"You'd better let me come in," I an
swered. "If the conductor or any of
the train bands should come along
there'd be no nepd of giving you away."
I went inside .and shut the door after
me. Then I asked. "Will you be good
enough to tell me what this means?"
"We're a bride and groom." said the
young feller, who couldn't have been
over seventeen years old.'
"On our wedding trip." the girl
added.
"A bride and groom on your wedding
trip!" I exclaimed. "How did you git
In here?"
"I'll tell you all about it." said the
boy. "We're not only on our wedding
trip, but we're a runaway couple."
"Are you sure you're not a pair of
escaped lunatics?"
The girl laughed: the fellow looked,
kind of queer and talked on.
"We were engaged, but neither her
dad nor mine would let us git mar
ried till we were older. I had a clerk
ship in a railroad freight house, and
I managed to git bold of this car, and
one night when you men were making
up this train I give the engineer a
signal to book np against it. and the
next time he backed up against a car
this was in the train.' I'd flxed the
door and put In the bridal furniture."
"The bridal furniture!" I said, look
ing around. "So this is a bridal cham
ber, is it?"
"Well, it's all we got," he answered.
"What have you had to eat?" I
asked.
"Bread, bacon, eggs and a few other
things. There's our stove. We get
good enough draft when the train's
taovlng."
"And when It isn't moving you fan
the Are?"
"Just 80."
Hearing some one coming, I put my
finger to my lips, and when the sound
bad passed I went out and shut the
door. That was the most original
wedding trip I ever saw or beard of.
and I wouldn't have given the chil
dren away for a farm, l couldn't
make up my mind whether they were
really on a honeymoon Journey or
playing they were married, as chil
dren do.
When we got to the end of the run
they disappeared, and I never found
. out what had become of them. .
A Manly Man.
He Ton say you like a manly man.
What Is your idea of a manly man?
She Well, for instance, one who
doesn't stay and stay and stay just
because he knows the girl isn't strong
enough to throw him out
Her Mistake.
Settlement - Worker Mercy, little
boy., are you fighting with that child?
The Little Boy-Me! Naw. I ain't
flghtln' wit' him. What's eatln' youse?
He's me sparrin' partner. Cleveland
PlaiD Dealer.
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Heart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYR
A FALSE PHILOSOPHY.
"There's nothing In it." '
Which was my friend's way of ex
pressing the result of his inventory of
human life and the values supposed to
reside in human living.
I knew his manner of life.
He was inordinately selfish. From
boyhood he had sought only his own
personal pleasure. His education, busi
ness, habits even his marriage had
been considered entirely from the
standpoint of his own personal good.
He was "successful."
His ambitions had been largely real
ized. But he was not happy. He wa.fl
discontented and pessimistic. Almost
angrily, he demanded.:
"What are we here for, anyway?"
I said to him that I had found life
very good and its values f a satisfy
ing character. I believed that one
should live
For the future In the distance.
For the good that I can do.
To be sure. I had not lived up to my
ideal, but it was my firm belief that
mortals are shut up to the proposition
that in order to be happy they must
plan to make others happy. Where
upon he said:
"I don't believe that rot."
I am sure he did not believe It. It
was totally contrary to his entire phi
losophy. He said :
--"Look about you. Every fellow is for
himself, and the devil takes the hind
most. The only Golden Rule I believe
in is the David Harum rule to 'do the
other fellow first.' The man who does
otherwise will get left.'
There are a lot of people who pro
ceed on that philosophy. .
But it does not work!
Those who live the David Harum
philosophy and David didn't some
how miss the way. Though "success
ful," they are weary and disgusted
with life.
The philosophy is wrong.'
Put the other system the plan of un
selfishness on the very lowest plane,
the plane of success, and it works!
is mere personal happiness your high
est desire?
If so you are doomed to disappoint
Hent, disillusion. The time will come
F'ben you will find nothing in life that
is worth while.
Mortals are built, that way.
. Propriety.
Not long after the expulsion from
Eden, Eve saw Adam digging In the
ground with something.
"What is that implement?5' she in
quired. "That? Why. that's a spade!" re
plied Adam, thinking no wrong.
Whereupon Eve blushed violently.
"Oh. mercy!" she cried, and averted
her face, lu other-words, it was long
enough after the expulsion for the sense
of propriety not only to have come Into
being, but to have gained considerable
headway as well. Puck.
SPICY SPORT CHATS
By TOMMY CLARK.
John L. Sullivan wishes to announce
that the crop of heavyweights is "not
like the old days."
Quite true, John. There is not a
heavyweight in the land who would
not 'gladly meet Jack Johnson. In the
"old days," John, there was one heavy
weight who could not be coaxed to
fight Petar Jackson, the real champion.
And that same heavyweight, who pos
ed as the champion of America, per
sistently sidestepped Frank Slavin, Joe
Goddard and several others who look
ed at all dangerous. You know him,
John. His last name was well, never
mind. -
Jack Denning, the New York welter
weight, the day after he defeated Mar
cel Moreau, the Frenchman, went to
a doctor to have his hand examined,
and when he returned to his manager.
Dan McKetrick, John's face was black
with gloom.
"What's the matter with your mitt?"
blithely asked Dan.
"Terrible!" replied Denning. "The
'doctor says it's suffering from pherios-
phthisis." "
McKetrick made one jump to the
phone. "Hey," he shrieked to the doc
tor, "is that thing going to kill Den
ning?" "No," piped the M. D.; "that's Latin
for an abrasion."
John McGraw is right wben be says
that it Is just as important to watch
what the players eat as it is to have
morning practice. There is no doubt
that many players have ruined them
selves by reason of satisfying theit
appetites. Overloaded stomachs are a
serious proposition for athletes, and it
is found that the players who are real
stars do their playing on empty sttwa
achs. It is a fact that the average man
ager does not give the matter of eating
of his players enough attention. This
Is particularly true of young players,
who, coming up to the big league,
where good hotels are furnished, try
to establish new eating records, wita
the result that their chances for mak
ing good are decided slim.
Obeyed the Call.
Wife Mercy! Look at your face!
What's hapiwned? Hub A truck driver
nearly ran over me. and I called him
down. Wife But your black eye?
Hub Oh. he obeyed my call. Boston
Transcript
There will be a singular condition oi
affairs In the major leagues this year.
In the National league it has been
variously asserted that the Giants,
Phillies, Cubs. Pirates. Reds, Brook
lyns and Cardinals will finish in the
first division. This leaves only the
Bostons for the second division. In
the American league the different
claimants have the Athletics. High
landers. White Sox. Detroits. Red Sox
and Naps for the first division, so that
he second Jour will consist of only
Washington and St. Louis.
A minor league player named Katz
was fined $2.50 for assault and battery
last summer.' He said be couldn't
sontrol bis temper when a would be
humorist yelled, "Well, Tom. how is
Mrs. Katz and the little kittens?"
. ' " rue cim i ree.
An elm tree will live about 600 years.
It is said to be in its prime at 150
years. , ; .-.'.J
Not Satisfied.
"Well," said the B'llvilie neighbor.
"I reckon your John is satisfied now
that he's safe iu congress." .
"No." said the old lady, "jest as soon
as he gits his shoes polished, puts on
a biled shirt and takes a ride in a
ortermobile he'll wonder why it didn't
occur to him to run for president"
Atlanta Constitution.
Envious.
Louis They say she will get a mil
lion the day she marries Fred. Louise
Well, it's worth it Chicago News.
40c.
" EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 30c to
35c.
SACK VEGETABLES Carrots,
$1.25 to J1.50 per sack; parsnips,
$1.25 to $1.50; turnips, $1.25 to $1.50;
beets, $1.50.
POTATOES Best buying 85c to
$1 per hundrea.
hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred.
ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per
Lvestock, Meats.
BEEF (Live weight) Steers, 5c
and 5 1-2; cows, 4 l-2c; bulls. 3 l-2c
VEAL Calves bring from 8c to
13c. according to grade.
MUTTON Sheep, 3c and 3 l-2c;
lambs, 4c and 6c.
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IN PRICE OF APPLES
There is a better feeling in the
apple market Prices are giving re
sponse to the improvement but no
serious advances are at present antic
ipated. The improvement affects principally
the ordinary quality offerings and
prices are generally 25c a box higher.
This is due to the decreased supplies
of ordinary quality and the greater
demand.
Apple prices are ruling along Front
Street, Portland, from $1.50 to $2.50
a . box for good quality. Extra fancy
apples are practically out of market
but fancy stock is not quoted above
$2.20 to $2.50, and there is plenty of
this quality at the price.
Apples that formerly sold' around
$1.25 are now firm at $1.50 per box.
This is the quality that finds the prin
cipal call at the present time and any
scarcity of offerings naturally brings
quick response from the price.
According to information, no large
lots of apples are available at any
point. For that reason the shipments
must o necessity be confined to the
local territory.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis of 6 1-4 pounds for 45-60's.
- Fruits, Vegetables.
HIDES (Buying) Green hides, 5c
to 6c; salters, 5 to 6c; dry hides, 12c
to 14c; sheep pelts, 25c to 75c each. '
Hay, Grain, Feed.
HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to
$15; clover, $8 to $9; oat hay, best,
$9 to $10; mixed, $9 to $12; alfalfa,
$15 to $16.50.
OATS (Buying) Gray, $27 to $28;
wheat, $28 to $29; oil meaL $53;
Shady Brook dairy feed, $1.25 per 106
pounds.
. FEED (Selling) Shorts, $26;
ed barley, $39; process barley,
whole corn, $39; cracked corn.
bran $25. .- - '
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.25.
Butter, Poultry, Eggs.
POULTRY (Buying) Heu, 10c to
lie spring, 10 to 11c, and roosters,
8c.'- --
Butter (Buying) Ordinary coun
try butter, 25c to 30c; fancy dairy.
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