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EARLY RAILROAD DAYS S , T £ t S Ä S ’ X « «“ “ “ J L r 1 8LAT“ -
/UKENSIBE
C H A P T E R X V l l . — (Continued.)
U «J * M a puaale to himself. H o would
not admit that during the past pear his
liking fo r Maddy Clyde had grown to bo
oooaetkiag atroagor than mere friendship,
nor yet that his feeliaga toward L a c y had
undergone a change, prompting him not
to go to her when aha was sick, and not
to bo ns sorry as ho ought that the m ar­
riage was again deferred. L a c y had no
suspicion o f the change, and her child­
like trust in him was the anchor which
held him still true to her in intentions
at least, if not in reality.
H e knew
from her letters how much she had learn­
ed to like Maddy Clyde, and eo, he argued,
there was ao harm in his liking her, too.
Khe was a splendid girl, and it seemed a
p ity that her lot should have been so
humbly cast. T h is was usually the d rift
o f his thoughts ia connection with her;
and now, aa ha stood there in that cot­
tage, Maddy's home, they recurred to him
w ith tenfold intensity, for well he fore­
saw that n struggle was before him if
be rescued Maddy, aa he meant to do,
from her approaching fate.
N o such thoughts, howerer, intruded
themselves on Maddy'a mind.
She did
not look aw ay from the present, except
it were at the past, in which she feared
she had erred by lea ring her grandmoth­
er too mock alone. B u t to her passionate
appeals for forgiveness, if she ever bad
neglected the dying one, there came hack
only loving looks and mute caresses, the
aged hand smoothing lovingly the bowed
head, or pressing fondly the girlish cheeks
W ith the coming o f daylight, however,
there was a change; and Maddy, listen­
ing intently, heard what sounded like her
name. The tired tongue was loosed for
m little, and ia tooee' scarcely articulate,
the disciple who fo r long years had served
her Heavenly Father faithfully, bore tes­
timony to the blessed truth that God's
promisee to those who love H im are not
la g the fainting a oof o f every fear, end
making the dying bed the very gate o f
heaven. This tribute to the 8 avior was
her first thought, while the second was
a blessing for her darling, n charge to
seek the narrow way now In Ufa’s early
morning. Disjointed sentences they were,
but Muddy understood them nil, treasur­
ing up every word even to the last, the
words the farthest apart and most pain-
com fort------ ”
She did not say whom, bat Maddy knew
whom she m eant; and without then real­
ising the magnitude o f the net, virtually
accepted the burden from which G ay was
no anxious to savs her.
C H APTE R X Y III.
O r e s t e s Markham was dead, sad the
covered sleigh, which late In the a fter­
noon plowed its w ay heavily back to
Alkenside, carried only Mrs. Noah, wbo,
w ith her forehead tied np in knots, Sat
back among the cushions, thinking not
o f the peaceful dead, gone forever to the
rest whjch remains fo r the people o f
God. but o f the wayward Guy, who had
resisted nil her efforts (to persuade him
to return with her, instead o f staying
where be was not needed, and where his
presence waa a restraint to nil save one.
and that one Maddy. for whose sake he
stayed.
“ She’d he summed,” the indignant old
lady said, “ if she would not w rite to Lucy
berself If Guy did not quit such data's,”
•nd thus resolving she kept on her way,
w hile the subject o f her wroth was, it
w ay be. more than h alf repenting ot t.is
decision to stay, inasmuch as he began to
bare an unpleasant consciousness o f him­
self being in everybody’s way.
In the first hour o f Maddy's bereave­
ment he had not spoken to her, but had
kept himself aloof from the room where,
w ith her grandfather and Uncle Joseph,
she sat. bolding the poor aching head o f
the latter ia her lap and trying to speak
n word o f consolation to the old. broken­
hearted man, whose hand was grasped in
hers.
B at Msddy knew he was there.
She could hear his voice each time be
spoke to Mrs. Noah, and that made the
desolation easier to bear.
She did not
look forward to the time when he would
he c o n s : and when at Inst be told her be
was going, she started quickly, and with
n gush o f tears, exclaim ed: “ No, n o! oh,
nor
“ Maddy,” Guy whispered, bending over
the strange trio, “ would you rather I
should stay? W ill it be pleasanter for
yon. if I d o r
"Y s a — I don’ t know. 1 guess it would
not be so loaely. Oh, it’s terrible to bare
grandmother dead P was
M eddy’s re­
sponse; a fter which Guy wonld bare
stayed if a whole regiment
of
Mrs.
Noahs had confronted him instead o f one.
Maddy wished i t ; that was reason
enough for him : and giving a few direc­
tions to John, he stayed, thereby discon­
certing the neighboring women who rame
in to perform the Inst office« for the dead,
and w ho wished the yoang man from Aik-
easide was anywhere bat there, watching
them all ia their movements, as
they
vain ly fancied ha did. But Guy thought
only o f Msddy, watching her ao carefully
that boots than one meaning glance was
exchanged between the women, who, even
over the inanimate form o f the dead,
spoke together o f what might possibly oc­
cur, wondering what would be the effect
on Grandpa Markham and Uncle Joseph.
W h o would take ra te o f them? And then.
In raae Maddy should feei it her duty to
stay there, as they h a lf hoped she would,
they fall to pitying the young girl, who
earned now m wholly unfitted for the
sitting by the evening lira, with the grand­
father and the imbecile U n d e Joseph—
then it was that she first began to feel the
Pressure o f the burden— began to nek her­
self i f she could live thus alwayfe, or a t
least fo r many yearn as long as sither o f
the tw o helpleea men- was spared. Maddy
was young, and the world ns she had seen
it waa very bright and fair, brighter tar
than n Ufa o f laborious boil, and fo r n
while the idea that the latter alterna­
tive must be accepted made her diaay and
faint.
An i f divining her thoughts, poor old
grandpa, in his prayers that night, nak­
ed in trembling tones, which showed how
much he felt what he waa saying, that
God would guide his darling in all she
did, and give her wisdom to make the
proper decision; that I f It were heat she
might be happy there with them, hut if
not, “ Oh, Father. F a th e r!” he sobbed,
“ help me and Joseph to hear It.”
He
could pray no more aloud, and the gray
head remained bowed down u£oa
his
chair, while Uncle Joseph, In his pecu­
liar way, took up the theme, begging like
n very child that Maddy might be inclined
to stay— that no young men with curling
hair, a diamond cross, the smell o f musk,
might be permitted to come near her with
enticing looks, but that she might stay
as she was and he an-old maid fo rever!
This was the subject o f Uncle Joseph’s
prayer, a prayer which set the little hired
girl to tittering, and would have wrung
a smile from Maddy herself had she not
felt all the strange petition implied.
W ith waywardness natural to people
in hia condition. Uncle Joseph that night
turned to Maddy for the little services
hie sister had form erly
rendered, and
which, since her illness. Grandpa M ark­
ham had done, and would w illingly do
stiU.
But Joseph refused to let him.
Maddy must untie his cravat, unbutton
his vest, and taka off hia shoes, while,
a fter he was ia bed, Maddy must sit by
his side, holding hia hand until he fell
aw ay to sleep. And Maddy did it cheer­
fully, soothing him into quiet, and keeping
back her own choking sorrow fo r the sake
o f com forting him. Then, when this task
was done she sought her grandfather, still
sitting before the kitchen fire and evi­
dently w aiting for her.
“ Maddy,” the old man said, “ come ait
close by me, where I can look into your
face, while we talk over what must be
done.”
W ith n half-shudder, Maddy d r e w .a
stool to her grandfather’s feet, %nd tent­
ing her bead upon hia knee, listened
while he talked to her o f the fu tu re; told
her ell her grandmother had done; told
o f his own helplessness ; o f the trial it
was to care fo r U n do Joseph, and then
in faltering tones asked' who was going
to look after them now. “ W e can’t live
here alone, Maddy.
W a can’t.
W e ’re
old and weak, and -want someone to loan
on.
Oh, why didn’ t God taka as with
her, Joseph end me, end that would leave
you free to go back to the school and the
life which 1 know is pleasanter than to
stay here with us. Oh, M ad d y! it com­
forts me to look at you— to hear your
voice, to know that though I don't see
you every minute, you are somewhere,
and by and by you'll come in. I shan’t
live long, and maybe Joseph won’t. God’s
promise is to them who honor father and
mother.
I t ’ll he hard for you to stay,
harder than it was once; bat, Msddy, oh,
M a d d y! stay with me, stay with m e!—
stay with your old grandpa !”
Maddy had a brave young heart, and at
last, winding her arms around her grand­
father’s neck, she whispered : “ I w ill not
leave you, grandpa. I ’ll stay in grand­
mother's place.”
Sorely Heaven would answer the bless­
ings whispered over Maddy by the delight­
ed old man, and the young girl taking
eo cheerfully the burden from which many
would have shrunk, should be blessed of
God.
W ith her grandfather’s hand upon her
head, Maddy could almost fe»l that the
blessing was descending; bi
when, in
her own little room, the one where she
had Iain sick for so many weary weeks,
her courage began to g i^ f way, and the
burden, magnified tenfold by her nervous
weaknexs. looked heavier than she could
bear.'*
“ I w ill, I w ill,” she cried, while into
her heart there crept an intense longing
for the love o f H im who alone conld make
her task s light one. “ I f I were good
like grandma, 1 conld beer everything,”
she thought, and turning upon her pil­
low, Msddy prayed an earnest, childlike
prayer, that God wonld help her do right,
that H e would take from her the proud
spirit which rebelled against her lot be­
cause o f Its loneliness, that pride anil
love o f her own ease and advancement in
preference to others’ good might all be
subdued; in short, that she might he God’s
child, walking where H e appointed her
to walk without a murmur, and doing
cheerfully H is will.
I t waa broad noon ere Maddy awoke,
and starting np she looked about her in
bewilderment, wondering where she was
and what agency had been at work in
her room, transforming it from the cold
comfortless apartment she had entered
the previous night into the cheerjr-looklng
chamber, with a warm firs biasing in the
tiny fireplace, a rag spread down upon
the hearth, a rocking chair drawn np’ be­
fore It, and all tracea o f the little hired
had never been.
In her grief Maddy
seemed to have forgotten how to make
things cosy, and as, during her grand­
mother’s illness, her own room had been
left to the cart o f the hired girl, Nettle,
' T o Msddy thsrs a u to no definite idea it w o n n neglected, rude aspect, which
o f thè futuro durtng thè tw o daya that had grated on Maddy’s finer feelings, and
whlte, rlgid forai loy lo thè darkened made everything ao uninviting. But this
cottage; hot when, ut Issi, thè daep gravo morning nil was changed. Some skillful
n o d o far Grandma Markham waa occu­ hand had been busy there while she slept,
p ic i. aod tha tooage in tha little front and Muddy waa wondering who it could
reom wss enxpty—•when thè Alkeneide be, when the door opened cautiously
esrriage, whicb had bara seni down for and Flora's good-humored face looked in
Maddy knew
thè aos mt thè mouraera, had heea driven — Flora from Alkenside.
aerar, taking bota Guy and Mro. Nonh— now to whom she was indebted fo r nil
t e a comfort, and with a cry s f jo y she
walmmafl too girl, wham very presence
F lo ra I am n t a V n , b a ci to ochoM. ”
“ N ot going back !” and Flora stopped
her bed-making, while she stared blankly
at Maddy. “ W hat be you going to deT"
“ Stay hero and take rare o f grandpa,”
Maddy said, bathing her face and neck
in the cold water, which could not c w l
the feverish beet she felt apron ng
,
I
£
he d ra w n by b o n e *
T h e first locom otive on th e B a ltim o re
O h io had nail a attached. Bo d id
( the en rf.
T h ese anile w e re
Isolated
( when th e w in d waa in the rig h t dlrao-
t k * so aa to help the locom otive.
| Xh# r fr a ir y between th e
ra ilro a d s
using locom otives
and
tbdea
naing
ov” * * * ? • . . , _______ _ _ _ M i _ tgag. horaee w as v e ry bitter.
In August,
“ Stay here! You are crasy, Mias Man*
...... . . .
. _____ . ^ __
d y ! T a in ’t no place for a girl lik# yon.
“
* CtU“ 1 trU1
w* »
and Mr. Guy never win suffer it, I know,**, held betw een n hom e and one o f th e
F lora («join ed, as she resumed her weak, pioneer locom otives, w hich d id n ot re­
thinking she “ should die to be n u p e ffo p salt In fa v o r o f the locom otive, the race
In that nutshell o f s bonra."
W
| wan on th e B. 4 O., th e locom otive
W ith a little sigh, aa she foresaw the being one b u ilt b y P e te r Cooper, w h o
opposition she shodd probably meat With
(c tM i u engineer,
from Guy, Maddy went on with her tod- 1
b o n e , n gallan t r r a v wan In the
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, * * W h a n d , try in g to rep lace it. the
The kitchen w ss ia perfect order, tor en* ln» »topped, the h o n e passed It and
F lo ra had been busy there an elsewhere, cam e in the winner.
T h e kettle was boiling on the stove, | A a t h e n w e re no brakes
on
the
w hile tw o or thro« little covered dishes e a rly trains, th ey used to stop and
were ranged upon the hearth, as if w aiting sta rt w ith Jolts w hich th rew th e p as­
tor someone.
Grandpa Markham
had sengera across the car. T h e coupling
gone out, bat Uncle Joseph sat In 1»1» ■ * - 1 w aa w ith chains b a v t i * tw o o r throe
cuttomed com er, e b b in g Ms h « d . warn ^
^
w h k * a * , en gin e In start-
w s s n source o f unabated w on d er to
the passengers, w b o bad h ith erto tra v ­
eled on th e s lo w ly m o vin g canal boats
and sta ge coaches.
In the m a tte r o f f n l g b t traffle the
ra ilro a d s w e n a t first unable to ccdb-
p ete w ith th e canals. O f a prom inent
M assachusetts ra ilro a d It is said th a t
w ^ T S e n . so that Maddy could hoar the J « * » - T h e shock on stopping w as even
crackling as the hearth.
i \ w o r n and “ n ever fa ile d to send the
Maddy entered the room known at the passenger flyin g.”
T h e n w e n no w h istles In th e old
day*.
Signal# w e n given by poshing
u p the v a lv e on the dom e by hand and
le ttin g th e steam escape w ith a loud
biasing noise. On the N e w C a stle and
F rea ch to w n ra ilro a d w hen th e signal
w e s beard th e slaves around th e sta­
tio n w ou ld rush to th e a r r iv in g train,
•else bold o f It and pull back w ith all
th eir m igh t w h ile the agent stuck n
N ob od y In C ed a rvltle waa m ore gen­ piece o f w ood through n wheel.
erou s than A lm ira Hanson.
“ She 11
T h e re w e re so m any collision s and
g iv e an’ g iv e , an’ w ith o u t rega rd to explosions th a t som e Southern ra il­
g e ttin g ,” h er neighbors said o f h e r ._____________________
roads Introduced _______
w h a t ______
th ey ___
ca lled n
B u t M iss H anson had h er ow n Ideas ^ b a rrie r e a r between the locom otive and
as to th e p rop er lim its fo r gen erosity, the
^
p
passenger
asse nge r coaches o f the
train,
and In the esse o f th e O e d a rv ille Cor- n , i g b a rrie r c a r consisted o f s plat-
nere’ Church Sociable she fe lt ,,ia 1 ( fo rm on w h eels upon w h ich w e re piled
those lim its had been overstepped.
j ^ g baiM
cotton, and It w as claim ed
“ I don’ t w a n t to c a rp n or to c r l l - , j t w ou ld sa fegu a rd the passengers in
else.” abe rem arked to an Interested tw o w a y s — It w ou ld protect them fro m
lis te n e r ; “ th e ir w a y s h a ve n ever b e e * f b « b low in g np o f the locom otive and
m y w ays, but
th e y 'v e
n ever
gone w o u ld fo rm s s o ft cushion upon which
a ga in st m y gra in so much ks th ey did th e passengers could" land In th e even t
la st night.
I o f a collision . T h e re Is no record o f
aa I d o fo r a ll th ree o f the c h u r c h «.
“ N o w you understand me, 1 w as gla d
te d o I t
I d id n ’t begru dge ’em the
beans, n or thq tim e It took to d o ’em
when I had com pany com e unexpecti *
— th ree cousins and a w om an I ’d nevi
eet eyes on before.
“ N o r I d idn ’ t begru dge c a rry in g th at
and begun
to hunt round
In g to le t th e p r iv ile g e o f
c a rry in g
fr e ig h t on Its lines to som e reaponeiblo
person f o r 91,000 a year.
T h e n a n m any accounts o f the p it i­
fu l sta te o f im pecnnloalty to w h ich
som e o f th e ra ilro a d s w e n
reduced.
Cash being exhausted, and re c e iv e r*'
certificates b a rin g not been Invented,
when operation s proved
unprofitable
th e n , w aa no basis fo r c r e d it
Men w e re som etim es put on th e ten­
d er w ith a saw horse and saw , and
when the en gin e ran out o f w ood these
m en w ou ld tak e np th e ir saw and cut
up a n ew supply o f fu el fro m the n ear­
est woods. O ften the passenger* w ou ld
g e t o ff th e t n l n and help in th e cu ttin g
o f the wood.
T h e ra ilro a d s w e n o ften too pom
to pay fo r th e fu el thus secured, and
th ere a re m any stories in the old news­
paper* o f encounters betw een
train
crew s and the fa rm ers
w h o caught
South C arolin a ra ilro a d w a s com plet-
« 4 , w ith its 100 m iles o f track, opera­
tlou o v e r n r h an exten sive Ifhe w as
then unprecedented,
In m ak in g
ar-
i usual u n dertake
lo g on e o f th e first things th a t occurred
to him w a s th a t the locom otives w ou ld
h a ve to ' run a t nigh t as w e ll aa day,
I------
g o d In th e absence o f a h ead ligh t he
b u ilt on an open p la tfo rm c a r station ed
In fro n t o f flbe locom otive, a fire o f pin e
knots surrounded w ith
sand,
w hich
fo r fu rn ish ed th e requ isite Illu m in ation o f
j
en gaged in n ra sor duel.
H e r oppo­
nent waa Mrs. O lln G. Castle, who, an
C la ra W ile y , w as m arried to young
O lln C astle, clerk In an E ld orad o store.
R oth g irld bad In' turn been w ooed by
him.
J u ly 22. 1900, nine days a fte r the
w ed d in g o f C la ra W ile y and C astle.
Mias M orrldan visited the you flg w ife
and th e fe ta l b a ttle ensued.
“ I w ss
called to th e C astle home by Mrs. C a s ­
tle, w b o commenced s fu riou s tira d e
agaln et roe.” atoe aaya In te llin g the
story. “ She attacked m e w ith a rasor.
I snatched the w eapon fro m her s a d
slashed her.” Mrs. C a stle died a weak
later.
Mias M orrison bad throe trials, la
each o f w hich aha. w aa found guilty.
T h e first tim e abe w a s sentenced to
th ree y e a n In prison, the second to
ten, and th e th ird tim e to tw enty.
T h e prom inence o f the prin cipals o f
the case m ade it on e o f the grea test in-
t e n e t th ro tig bout th e country. T h e con­
victed w om an’s fa th e r w as a t on e tim e
a m em ber o f th e K an sas Supreme
Court.
W . R. Boggs, an American, was slain
by Mexican laborers who demanded their
wagee.
T w o bombs* ware found beneath th e box
of K in g Carlos o f Portugal ia tbs Royal
Theater o f Lisbon.
Brigands tortured Marquis C ito o f N a­
ples and forced his w ife to w rits a check,
Doetore D w e ll s s the M erits o f l e g - for $20,000 fo r hia ransom.
h a rt, a B i i s s r i s s r o e * .
T h e death sentence o f P rof. K a rl Hau,
T h e la test producer o f lon g life d ia ­
convicted o f murder In Germany, war
c o v e n d by European p h ysiologist« is
commuted to life imprisonment.
xoghurt, a prep aration o f sour m ilk,
Km press Alexandra o f Rossis became
aaya th e W ashington Star. P ro f. E lla s
eo ill that special consultation o f court
M etchnikow o f the P asteu r In stitu te, physicians was deemed necessary.
w as th e firot to d irect a tten tion to It,
In the effort to gain the mastery ot
hut no sooner bad he done so than the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign
P ro f. R ein h a rd t o f Vienna announced ■hipping line oat o f the Chinn trade.
th a t he had known a ll about It fo r
Thousand« o f native troops who attack­
ed the French forces on the Algerian
frontier were driven hack into Morocco.
A steamer went on the rocks o f the
N ova Scotia shore in a blinding storm,
bat the -000 persona aboard were taken
off.
said she knew I ’d ra th er p ay fiv e cento to e s f o r headlights wc
to him fo r the church debt than to lug tra in s tra v e le d slow ly
it m yself, w ell— I d id n ’t aay anything dark.
N lg M
trips,
Oscar Erbaloeh was forced by German
authorities to pay duty o f 9&0 on the
James Gordon Bennett Cap he wan is
the balloon race.
H err Lange, n well-known translator,
predicted n famine in white paper and
urged Am erica to look to the preserva­
tion o f her forests.
Pm lth — But w h at does you r wlfie sm okestacks m any tim es la rg e r than
iy 7
those now In n s » —too high Indeed to
Jonee— Oh. she doesn’ t o b je c t S h ell p a n under o v e rh e a d bridges o r th e
e cook.— B rook lyn L ife .
j ro o fs o f oovered wooden brtdi
..
| T o overcom e
th is
difficu lty
the
H o w - a B u s Btmmm.
■ im o k r a ta c k * o f m any o f tb s locomo-
W e _ d _ d e rly — T h e on ly w a y to cudp **voo w #r*
o r hinged to th a t
. .
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A m * --------- ----- -» t o l t / v n daa
y a tu ssU o f an attack o f lo ve l a t o r u i « t o y conkl bo low ered when tra in s w e re
Finance M inister Kokovaoff,
in an­
nouncing tha budget In the Dunk, Tnee-
day, said that It would be necessary to
M l until It is reduced to about h a lf Its [get 988,000,000 on credit to meet the ex­
traordinary expenses.
. origin al volume.
Th en It is cooled and when i t reaches
a tem peratu re o f about 115 deg rees
. _____
■oghnrt a lrea d y prepared is •* **• Petersburg, and Mme. Broshkov
' stirred Into It and It Is le ft to ferm ent.
• * * * tb* f™ * aristocratic con-
| T h e germ , w hich the doctor calls m a ys
Iw a y .
T
t p r o c ^ t a , o v e r o r under h r id g m T h l , 'f u n g u s a c t. qn.ricly and the xoghurt
Singleton— W h y didn’ t
you do th at n * t u n lly g re a tly increased th e d an ger la ready fo r u m In a day.
when you w e n cou rtin g th e g irl you
settin g fire to tb s w ooden bridges,
D r. R eo ln h srd t thinks the health-
m a rried ?
and It w as cu stom ary fo r a w atchm an g iv in g qu alities o f the preparation a re
W e d d e fly ___ I d id— I r a n 'a w a y
w i t » to flpllow e v e ry tra in o v e r o r nnder th e am ply p roved by the fa c t th a t Bui-
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