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M. K.LTIIKCH
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I'm a self made man. 1 started as
F o r Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowls. They are made from the active principle or the
fireman on a locomotive, passed ten condensed essence of the drug. They don't contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran. A re just
years us engineer and rose to be gen as good when 10 years old as when 10 days old They com ply with all pure drug laws. Ask for
and try once S K I D O O Condition Tablets, o r S K I D O O W orm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera,
eral superintendent of the road.
Blister, Cathartic, Heave. Fever, Hog Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tabletsor Louse Powder,
Now. there is a vast difference lie- Spavin Cure o r Barb W ire Liniment. Distributed by T H E B L U E B E L L M E D IC IN E C O . ,
tween a fireman or euglneer and u gen iucorporated; Capital Stock $300,000.00; Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A.
eral superintendent. But I didn’t get
For Sale by RAY & CO., Dallas, Oregon
the big head. 1 never considered my
self or any of my family any better for
my sitting in a revolving chair tapping
a bell for some one to wait on me than
when 1 had my hand on the throttle,
and when Torn Mlllikln. a locomotive
engiueer. came courting my daughter
Susie I didn't turn him down because
he drove an engine. But what I want
ed for Susie was a man of nerve,
strength and character.
"Tom,” I said, "you may have Susie
on one condition. We want a man to
take a new passenger limited through
in the night. The distance is 300 miles,
and it must be done iu five hours. The
average must be sixty miles an hour,
which means as low as fifty and as
high as seventy. Do the Job, and you
shall have Susie.”
Tom thought a long while, then said:
"I have always supposed, Mr. Mc
Mullen. that you'd never ask a man to
do what you would not do yourself.”
"I wouldn’t."
"W ell, suppose we put it this way:
You take the train through first. If
you succeed. I take it through and get
Susie. I f you don’t succeed. I get Susie
without making the attempt myself.”
The fellow knew how to handle me.
1 was very proud of my knowledge of
railroad technique and had carried
trains often since my promotion. I at
once acceded to his terms.
I shall never forget the experience of
that run. Twenty minutes before train « iY A W
A Y iT A T in n a t a t a t a t a t a t a t ^
time I appeared In overalls at the en
gine, which was standing ready on the
ELECTRICITY fOR LIGHTING IS ONLY EXPENSIVE
track, to make my own inspection of
her and do my own oiling. When we
TO PEOPIE WHO ARE WASTEFUL AND CAHEIESS.
pulled out I felt like a bird let out of a
TO YOU, WHO ARE NATURALLY CAREEUl,
cage. I was still, though fifteen years
f£>
older than when I left the cab, in full
IT DOES NOT COME HIGH.
vigor of nerve aud muscle. I had fig
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ured carefully just what time I must
make on different parts of the road and
It is economical becausejit can be quickly turned off when not
was in every way prepared for the
needed. With gas or kerosene there is the temptation to let light
trial. I had never driven an engine for
burn, when not needed, to save bother of lighting and adjusting.
any length of time over fifty miles an
In some homes the electric light bill amounts to only about $2 per
hour, and up to that point there is no
month. You can probably get some kind of artificial light for less
great strain ou an engineer. I did not
money than electric light, but does it save you anything when it
realize that an average man can’ t
limits opport uni ties for work and recreation, ruins your eyesight,
stand many spurts at sixty-five miles
smokes your walls, mars decorations and increases household work.
an hour and in some places I must do
You can probably save a dollar tomorrow by going without your
seventy.
meals, but it-wouldn’t be economy. It is not so much what you
I got on pretty well for the first
three hours, though I had made a num
save, but how you save, that counts. W e are always ready to ex
ber of my fast paces, but after that I
plain the “ ins and outs” of the lighting proposition to you. Call
began to suffer.
Looking straight
on us or phone to us. We are never too busy to talk business.
ahead continuously, seeing at the same
time things out of the corners of my
eyes whizzing by me, made me
feel as if something was pulling my
sight nerve out through the sockets.
Some of ray fastest spurts came in
about this time, and every few minutes
I was frightened half out of my senses.
E. W. KEARNES, Manager
The first thing to rattle me was seeing
something black on the track dead
Office on M ill street, just north of the court house
Dallas, Oregon
ahead of me. I thought It was the rear
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end of a train with no lights out. If it
had been there would have been no
time to slow up, but it was gone before *
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I could have done so anyway, aqd then
I realized that it was the shadow of a
bird flying across the headlight. This
had the effect on my nerves of an es
cape frofn a sudden plunge into death.
I had always been quick to adopt im
provements on the road aud had put
on electric headlights. This made all
the shadows look like big black things,
solid as masonry. The shadow of a
telegraph pole cast ou the track as it
sometimes would be at a curve ahead
looked for all the world like the trunk
of a tree. The worst scare I had was
from something that wouldn’t get out
of the way. It was a big round black
bowlder that appeared a few hundred
feet ahead. This was the only scare
I put on the brakes for. As I slowed
down I noticed that I got no nearer to
It. Finally I stopped short, went ahead
to the pilot, and, turning, there on the
glass before the headlight was a little
moth.
An hour before I was due to arrive
I had made up my mind that, though I
could make an engine to do the trip
on schedule time. I couldn’t make a
man to run her. But I had a lot of
pride and continued the struggle,
though my falling nerves rendered
failure almost a certainty. When I
had the last forty miles to go and only
thirty minutes to do it In I gave up and
turned the throttle over to my fireman,
with directions to take his time. As I
left the engineer’s post I staggered to
the sent on the other side of the cab.
and it was all I could do to hold on
when I got on to it.
I felt as if a dozen men with ham
mers had been pounding on every
nerve in my body» When we reached
the station 1 called a carriage and
went to a hotel, and if I hadn’t been
too proud, or, rather, if I hadn’t feared
It would get out. I ’d have called a
trained nurse to take care of me.
The next day I went back In the pres
ident’s private car and the morning
after appeared in my office and sent for
Tom Mlllikln. He came in. looking
curious. I said to him:
“ Tom, you needn’t perform your part
of the contract It would be no use.
for I ’ve made up my mind not to put
the train on. You’ve won.”
“ I ’d like the privilege of doing the
trick once,” he said, " If you don’t
Blind.”
I gave him permission, and he took
lie train through on time.
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; the roef. Archdeacon Orooin, wno was
I a pupil of ids, tells a story in illustra-
! tion of his prowess. One of the boys
had been flogged by the redoubtable
dominie, and the lad’s father came to
complain.
j "Sir,” said Valpy to him, “ 1 flogged
! your son because be richly deserved it.
I f he again deserves it, I shall flog
him again, and,” rising, "If you come
here, sir. Interfering with my duty I
shall flog you.”
The parent fled.
Why We Are All Mimics.
,4I f we did not cough In church, the
human race would not exist.” And the
professor, twiddling a piece of chalk
in his hand, regarded the sophomores
with a quizzical smile.
“ What I mean,” lie continued, “ Is
that the cause of coughing Is the cause
of our survival. That cause is mim
icry. Mimicry is a better life preserver
than tieetness or strength. For by
mimicry we manage not to attract at
tention, and in prehistoric times they
A Famous Architect’s Trick.
who attracted attention were hunted
When Sir Christopher Wren was
down by the tribe and .roasted for din
building the town hall of Windsor, a
ner or hunted down by the saber tooth
fidgety member of the corporation, so
tiger and taken raw.
the story goes, insisted that the roof
“ Since those dark days mimicry has
required further support and desired
been instinctive with us. Mimicry is tlie architect to add more pillars. In
what causes us to follow the fashions.
vain did Sir Christopher assure him
It causes us, when in England, to say that the danger was imaginary. He
‘cawn’t’ and ‘lawf.’ If your friend knew better. The alarm spread, and
yawns, you yawn—that’s mimicry. If
the great architect was won-led into
he laughs, you laugh—mimicry again.
adding the desired columns.
I f he snutiles, you snuffle—mimicry.
Years passed, and in later times,
And if he coughs in church, straight when architect and patrons were dead,
way you and all the rest of the con
cleaning operations in the roof re
gregation cough, the reason being the
vealed the fact that the supposed addi
same one which saved our forefathers tional supports did not touch the roof
from extermination.” —New York Press.
' by two inches, though this was not per
ceptible to the gazers below.
Famous Floggera.
By this Ingenious expedient did Wren
Among English schoolmasters whose pacify his critics, while vindicating his
names have come down to posterity own architectural skill to future gener
with the dubious reputation of great ations.
(loggers Dr. Busby of Westminster
It All Ucpenes.
school is the generally acknowledged
R in g ru le m a y bn a m aiden ’ s whim,
chief.
A nd to It she m a y tru e be
Of him it is recorded that, one of his
If backed up by the p rop er "him"
head boys having insulted a young
A nd u diam ond o r a ruby.
—D e tro it Tribune.
French viscount who came to the
Bchool to demand satisfaction, he flog
Up
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ged the viscount first for the blood
She—Some men haven't much to say.
thirsty Intentions and next his friend
He—Yet It is easier to talk than to
who was the bearer of his challenge.
Dr. Valpy, too, who edited an edition saw wood.—Bohemian Magazine.
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