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F iv e
•a a a » » » ® ® ® ® » ®
C e n ts
w ith a sort o f “There now, you toft- Mill lay between the distressed man
"Bridge burning ahead there.”
"W hat the deuce have you bit Into!**
pws! Are you any good at all on the and bia unfortunate child.
"Bridge burning!” h» cried, looking cried tbe depot master aa tho Five-
ri est End?” Aud we thought we were.
From McCloud to Ogalalla there la a nervously forward.
“ Well, that’s a Nine swept splendidly op and stopped
8lttlng lu the dispatcher's office, wa good bit of twisting aud slewing, but
deal! W hat you going to do shout It?” with her battered eye hard on tbe
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lagged her down the line like a »wsl- looking east from Atbeus a marble
“ Run It
Are you M c W IIlla in s r
depot clock.
A ll ^indr of Reservoir and Cistern work in eon- •
tow Harvard. Oxford, Zanesville, Ash­
dropped between the rails might roll
"McWllllanit»? I wish I was for Just
"M attaback bri«lge la buqie<L H ad
ton—and a thousand ¡»eople at the Mc- clear into the Ogalalla yarda I t la a
neotfon with water systems installed in first
one minute. I ’m oue of his clerkJ."
f t
to c ra w l’ over on the stringer«,** an­
Oloud station Waited for 6 o’clock and
sixty
mile
grade,
the
ballast
of
slag
class style and all work done guaranteed.
"W here la hte?”
swered Sinclair, coughing up a cin­
for Foley’s muddy cap to pop through
and the sweetest, springiest bed under
‘ 1 left Idin ou l a Salle street yen der.
Py n s mite and powder work on all kinds of Rook Excavations
Blackwood bluffs, watched him steel.
terdny afternoon.”
^ 2 ,vre’a McW lIllam a?”
the valley maples w ith a stream
l a never thaaa M ain nsUas «—.»•—
-«»»»■■■«»■ .Tmir iw rncr'
hr Hsaak H.
of white sad black, scream at the Junc­ than fifty minutes waa like picking
reckon.”
’’Just plain Ferguson.”
tion switches, tear and crash through them off the ponlee, and the Five-Nine
W hile the crew went up to register
"W ell, Ferguson, It's none of my
the yards and slide hissing and pant
breasted the Morgan divide, fretting business, but as long na we’re going two big four horse trucks backed dp to
Ing
up
under
our
uose,
swing
out
of
for
more
hills
to
climb.
r
o
to put you Into Denver or Into the tho baggage car, and In a minute
his cab and look at nobody nt all but
The Five-Nine—for that matter any river In nlxmt a minute I ’m curious to dozen men wero rolling specie keg«
to
the
stockholders?
Not
so.
I
t
be­
Ills
watch
T belong! to the
of the skyscrapers are built to halauce know what the biases you’re •hustling out of tho door, which waa smashed
longs to men Ilka M r. McWilliams,
We made It 6:51) a. in., Central tli&v
stories
th a t
teu or a dozen slee|>ers, “and when you along this way for.”
In, as being quicker than to tear open
who
own
It
when
they
need
I
t
A
t
the
mile«,
186;
the
minutes,
121.
The
never
were
run them light they l^ v e a fashion of
"Me? I ’ve got 81.200,000 In gold coin the barricades.
other
times
they
let
the
stockholders
schedule
was
beaten
and
that
with
the
•
told, this of the
rooting their noses Into the track. A
Slnclnlr, MacElroy and Francis with
carry It— until they w ant it again.
136 miles the fastest on the whole modest up grade Just about counters In this car for the Sierra Leone Na­
M c W ll lla m a
tional bank—tin t's all.
Didn’t you his hruketuuu were surrounded by a
"W
e
’ll
do
what
we
can,
Peter,"
re­
1,020.
Everybody
In
town
yelled
ex­
Special. B u tlt
this teudency, but on a slump and u
know that five big hanks then* cloaisl crowd of railroad men. As they stood
happened years plied the president desperately amia­ cept Foley. H e asked for a chew of stiff clip and n o-tall to speuk of you
their doors yesterday? Wort.d panto niMwerlng questions a big prosperous
tobaccu aud, uot getting one haudlly
ago, and for ble. "Goodby."
feel as If the drivers were going to
In the United States. T hat’s what I ’tn looking banker w ith black rings under
I am giving you only an Iqkllng of hit Into his owu piece.
th a t
m atter
buck up on the jHinles every once In
✓
ben*
for and five huskies with me eat­ his eye« pushed lu toward them, no
While Foley melted hla weed George awhile. However, they never do, and
-
. M cW illiam s Is bow It started, not a word as to how
compnnied by tho lame fellow, who
Satisfaction G uaranteed
dead. I t wasn't grief that killed him countless orders were Issued and Sinclair stepi>ed out of the sui>erln Georgle whistled for 8carl»oro Junc­ ing ami sleeping in this ear,” continu­ hud missod the chance of a lifetime to
ed Ferguson, looking ahead. "You’re
countless schedules were canceled, not tendeut’s office—he was done In
either,
though
at
one
time
hla
grief
tion
and
180
miles
aud
two
waters
In
die rich, and by Ferguson, who had
Roth in W ork m an sh ip and Price
not going to tackle that bridge, are
a paragraph about numberless trains black silk shirt, with s blue four-ln
came uncommonly near killing us.
tol<l tho story.
you
?”
.
.
hand
streaming
over
his
front—stepped
abaudoned
lu
toto
and
numberless
oth­
I t Is ad odd sort of a yarn, too, be­
Office at F u rn itu re Store.
Tho banker shook bauds with each
‘We are and right off. i f there’s ono of the crew. “You’ve saved us,
ers pulled and hauled and held and out to shake bauds with Foley os one
muse one |>ert of It never got to head
any
of
yor.r
huskies
want
to
drop
out,
hostler
got
the
466
out
of
the
way
and
annulled.
The
McW
illiam
s
Special
In
n
quarters, aud another part of It never
hoys. W e needed It, There’s a mob
now’s (h r'r chance,” said Pat Francis of .",n<>0 of th e w o rst snred people In
tw inkle tore a great system lutd*9ferent another backed down with n new sky
got from headquarters.
as
Hiaete
r
••’owetl
up
frt?
Ms
run.
sernper,
the
500.
How, for lustnnce, the mysterious sphnters.
America clamoring nt the doors, and,
But nobody pnid much attention to
F e ig “?;, n culled his men. The live, by tho eternal, now we’re fixed for
car was ever started from Chicago on
I t set master mechanics by the ears
all
this.
The
mob
had
swarmed
around
w ith t ’ . ■ lilies, came cautiously for­ cvcrv ono of them. t ,O ffice np to tlje
such- a delirious schedule, bow many aud made reckless falsifiers of previ­
■ H m n i n n i n n n r i r . i m T n n i i ii n i i H i i m m n r
ward.
men In the service know that even ously conservative trainmen. I t made the ratty, old, blind eyed baggage car
bank. I want you to ride right up with
J.ys.”
'’aid
Ferguson
lyjiffly, the coin, all of you.”
.
yet?
undylug enemies of rival superintend­ which, w ith an ordinary wny^cnr, con­
”tl r ' : i I ridge ailre abend. XtMMft
How, for another Instance, Sinclair ents and Incipient paretics of Jolly stituted the M cW illiam s Special.
I t was an uncommonly (jueer occa­
ALL th e tim e.
“Now, w hat does a man with Mc­
guys are going to try to run It. ^ t's sion, but nn uncommonly enthusiastic
and F rauds took the ratty old car reel
train dispatchers. I t shivered us from
For C ounty new« Ing Into Denver with the glass shriv­ end to end and stem to stern, but It W illiam s’ money want to travel apo­
hot In y r . r contract, that kind of a one. F ifty policemen made the escort
•hntiee. I ’ » you want to get off? I mid cleared tho way for tho trucks to
eled, the paint blistered, the hose burn
covered 1.026 miles of the best steel In cini In an old photograph gallery
stay with t!ie specie, m.vself. You can pull h i », across the sidewalk so the por­
ed und a tiro sprung ou one of the the world In rather better than twenty like that for?” asked Andy Cameron,
do exactly as you please.
Murray, ters could lug tho kegs of gold Into th
who was the least bit huffed liecanse
Five-Nine's drivers, how many head­ hours and a bias« of glory.
what do you say?" he asked,-address­ bank before the very eyes of the
quarters slaves know that?
♦ "M y word Is out,” said the president he hadn’t been marked up for the run
ing tiie loader of the force, who appear­ tied depositors.
' Our end of the story never w ent In lu his message^ to all auperlutendents himself. "You better take him In
ed to weigh nlsiut 260.
at all—never went In because It was thirty minutes later. “You w ill get cup of hot coffee, Hlukers.” - suggested
In an hour the run waa broken,
“W hat do I suy?” echoed Murray, when tbe four railroad men le ft the
not deemed—well, essential to the get­ your division schedule In a few mo­ Andy to the lunch counter boy. "You
with
decision,
ns
he
looked
for
a
soft“
ting up of the annual report. W e could menta. Bend no reasons for inability might get a tan dollar bill I f the old
hank after all sorts of hugging by ex­
place to alight alongside the track. “I cited directors they carried not only
have raised their hair; they could have to make It. Simply deliver the goods. man Isn’t reeling too badly. What do
P ro tla n d , O re g o n .
say I'll drop out right here. I don’t the blessings of the officials, but each
raised our salaries, but they didn't; wa W ith your time report, which comes by you bear frouj Den vèr, Neighbor?" he
mind traiu robbers, hut I don't tackle In his vest pocket a check, every one
Dy. M. 8., I. want the name and rec­ asked, turning to the superintendent
didn't
O M A K ANOXK s ON MANAUKK
a burning bridge—not If I know It,” of which discounted the biggest vouch
•T O P A T
In telling this story I would not be ord of every member of every train of motive power. “Is the boy bolding
and tie jumped off.
er ever drawn on the West End for a
misunderstood. Ours la not the only crew and every engine crew that hauls o u t r
"Well» restore,” asked Ferguson of month’s pay, though I violate no con­
t o b t aad-McrxonStreets
line between Chicago and Denver. the McW illiam s ear.” Then followed
'T m not worrying about the boy
the second man coolly, "do you want to fidence In stating that Georgle Sin­
Injunctions
o f secrecy. holding oat; It’s whether the Five Nine
There are others, I admit I t But there particular
Btny?”
*
clair’s was bigger than any two of the
C o rn e r 7 th a n d S tark S tre e ts . is only one line, all the same, that Above ail, the newspapers must not w ill hold out.
“ Me?" eclioetl Peaters, braking ahead others. And this Is how It happeni
could have taken the M cW illiam s Spe­ get It.
“Aren’t
yon
going
to
change
engines
It
1»
new
and
It»
room»
are
provided
with
at the ma ts of flame leaping upward. that there hangs In tho director«* room
'»J.W /W 'i'V'''’" Free bus to and from trains
cial, as we did. out of Chicago at
la
But where newspapers are secrecy and crews at Arlckarèe?
running water and long distance tele­
“ Me stay? W ell, not In a thousand of the Sierra Leone Nations) a very
the evening and put It In Denver long can only i»e hoped for, never attained.
phone«. European plan. Rate»
"Not
today,”
said
Neighbor
grimly.
years. You «•an have my gun, Mr. Fer­ creditable portrait of the kid engineer.
Rates by the day
before noon the next day.
ftl per day. and upward
In spite o f the most elaborate precaq- “W a haven't time.”
guson, uml scud my check to 430 M il­
Besides paying tariff on the specie,
Highest priced room $3
▲ communication came from a great tlons to preserve Peter M cW illiam s’
Just then Sinkers rushed at the hag-
waukee ave.aie, If you please. Gen­ tbe bank paid for a new coat of paint
per day.
La
Salle
street
banker
to
the
president
secret—would
you
believe
It?—the
even­
6 0 c, 7 6 c, • I .0 0 .
.6 0 , S 2 .
gage car with a cup of hot coffee for
tlemen,
good
day."-’
And
off
went
for the M cW illiam s Special from ca­
r
Wright-Dickinson Hotel Co. o f our road. N ext the second vice ing papers had half a column, practi M r. McWilliams. .Everybody, hoping A tramandova arrow «hooliny UvronpA a ltonters.
»
boose to p ilo t She was the last train
president heard of I t but In this way:
cally the whole thing. O f course they to get a peep at th< capitalist, mads
European Plan
;
araaa
«/
pra,
Ami
off
went
every
last
man
of
the
Outs. W right, Presideat.
scroe« the Mattaback for two weeks.
"W hy have you turned down Peter had to guess a t some ef it, but for a
way
Sinkers climbed over the train 108 minutes out of McCloud, sud, look
valorous
doteitlvea
except
one
lame
M. C. Dlcklaao«, Haaager. McW illiam s* request for a special to newspaper story it was pretty correct, Cheats which were lashed to the plat lug happy, cussed Mr. M cW illiam s a fellow, wh i said be would*Juat na lief
A Good Clean Fam ily Hotel
F r o fe a e e r S w a ll e w r e I t A ll.
Denver thia afternoon r* naked the Jdst the same. They had to a minute
forms and pounded on the door. He little and gave her another hatful of l»e dead aa alive nuyway and declared
The scholarly W illiam E. Byerly, pro­
president
the time o f the start from Chicago and
he would stay with Ferguson and die fessor of mathematics at Harvard, was
- "H e wants too much," came back hinted broadly that the schedule was pounded hard, for he hoped and be­ steam.
/
,
. . - - -
—— , I
I t Is getting down a bill, like the hills rich. "
once nsk«x1 by a student how to de*
over the private wire. "W e ean’t do a balr ralaef, something to make pre­ lieved that there was something In I t
fcinclclr, tiilnklng he might never get velop a retentive memory. The pro­
But he might have bounded till his of the Mattaback valley, at such a
I t”
vious very fast records previous vary
another irtiance, was whistling sharply fessor answered thnt ordinary mental
A fte r satisfying himself on thia point alow records. And—here in a scoop •Offre froze for all nk- Impression It pace that pounds the track out of
shape. The Five-Nine lurched at the for orders.• Frnncla, brenthlesa with oxet*lso was sufficient to secure a
the president called up La Salle street. waa the secret—the train was to con­ made on the sleepy McWilliams.
.»
"Hasn’t the man trouble enough curves like a mad woman, shook free the news, ran forward,
guod memory, whereat tho student
"Our folks nay, Mr. McWilliams, wa vey a prominent Chicago capitalist to
Colu? How much? Twelve hun­ asked If he might teat the mental ca­
with very fury, and If the baggage car
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simply can't do It.”
the bedside of hla dying son. Philip without tackling your chicory?” sang
bad not beeu fairly loaded down with dred thousand. -W hew f” «Tied Sinclair. pacity of hla Instructor. Professor By­
N earest H otel to Busineett Center, B an k s and Depot.
“You must do It.”
McW illiam s, In Denver. Farther, that out Felix Kennedy, and the laugh so
Swing up. Pat. W e’re off.”
the grief of McW illiam s It must have
erly agreed, and the student asked
"W hen w ill the car be ready?”
«hourly bulletins were being wired to discouraged Sinkers that he gave over
The FIve-XIue gathered herself with him to listen to and remember sev­
Jumped the rails a dozen times In aa
the distressed father and that every and sneaked away.
"A t 8 o’clock."
a
spring.
E
eu
the
engineer’s
heart
Sund-ay Dinner 35 cents.
many
minutes.
eral varied Items for a tes t H e be­
A t that moment the editor of the lo­
effort of science would be put forth to
"W hen must It be In Denver?"
Indeed the fireman—It was Jerry quailed us they got headway. He knew gan:
keep the unhappy boy alive until hla cal paper came around the depot cor­
"Ten o’clock tomorrow morning,
Ills
bii.iii:.--x,
na
I
lie
knew
thnt
If
only
Mac Elroy—twisting and shifting be­
"One quart of «rhiaky.” __
_ The president nearly Jumped the father could reach Denver on the spe­ ner on the run. H e was out for an In­ tween tbe tender aud tbe furnace, look­ the rails hadn’t buckled they were per­
"U m !” said the professor.
cial. Lastly, It waa hoped by all the terview aud, as usuai, Just a trifle lata.
trlre.
a
ed fQr tbe first time grave and stole a fectly safe, for the heavy truss would
"Hix pounds of sugna, a pint of sour
"M cW illiam s, you’re crazy. W hat on evening papers (to fill out the half Brat However, he Insisted on Iraardlng the questioning glance from the steam staud a lot of burning Is»fore giving
milk, three onions, hulf a gallon of mo­
column scare) that sunrise would eee baggage ear to tender hla sympathy to
earth do you mean!"
way under n sw iftly moving train. lasses and two raw egg«.’’
guuge toward Georgle.
The talk came back so low that the the anxious parent w ell on toward the McWilliams.
But yet he didn’t expect to see the Only, as they flew nearer, the blaze . "U m !” said the professor.
gateway
of
the
Rockies.
The
barricades
bothered
him,
but
he
wires hardly caught It. There w e r e oc­
boy. his face set ahead and dowu the rolling up In deiisc volume looked hor­
"Tw o greeu apples, tw enty -six pea­
O f course the morning papers from mounted them all and began on emer­
casional outbursts such as, "Situation
traqk, straighten so suddenly up, sluk ribly threatening. A fter all, It was nuts, one aud n h alf cucumber« and
the
A
tlantic
to
the
Pacific
had
the
gency
pound
on
the
forbidding
blind
is extremely critical,” “Grave dan­
In the lever and close at tbe Instant on foolhardy, and lie felt It, but he wus four mince pies."
ger," "Acute distress,” "M ust help me story repeated—scare headed. In fact— door. Imagine his feelings when the the air. Jerry felt her stumble under past the stopping uow, and he pulled
"U m !” said the professor.
and the public were laughing at our door was gently opened by a sad eyed his feet—caught up like a girl In a the choker to the limit. It sec>med as If
out.”
"A package of wtarcb, sixty-«even
Q "J~ Q
artiere tho poopto atop
b
a
n
who
opened
the
ball
by
shoving
a
people’s
dogged
refusal
to
confirm
the
/«ho
never
covered
stool
so
fast.
Under
skipping
rope-
and,
grabbing
a
brace,
But none of this would ever have
enkes of yeni# and the skins of seven
report
or
to
be
interviewed
at
all
on
rifle
ns
big
ns
a
pinch
bar
under
the
the
head
she
now
had
tho
crackling
looked, like a wise stoker, for his an­
moved the president bad not Peter
bananas. Got that down?"
swer out of hla window. There far bridge was low than live hundred,
M cW illiam s been a bigger man than the subject The papers had the story editorial nose.
"Yes,” answered Dr. Byerly.
“
My
grief,
Mr.
McWUUlame,”
pro­
anyway.
W
hat
did
they
care
for
our
four
hundred,
three
hundred,
two
hun­
head It rose In hot curling clouds of
most corporations, and a personal re­
"H ow does It taste?" asked the atu-
ofed
the
Interviewer
In
n
trembling
efforts
to
screen
a
private
distress
dred
feet,
aud
there
was
no
longer
smoke down nmong the alfalfa mead­
quest from Peter, If he stuck for It,
u .at.— Boston Herold.
T »«s D a lle « , O r e g o n ,
v
e
le
“don’t
Imagine
I
want
to
hold
time
to
think.
W
ith
u
stare,
Sinclair
ows and over the sweep of willows
could hardly be refused, and for this which Insisted on so paralyzing a time
card for 1,020 miles?
you up. Our citizens arte nil pencea- along the Mattaback river. The M atta­ shut off. He wanted no push or pull ou
Steam H e a t.
E lectric L ig h ts
Electric Call Bells.
<
C lo v e Q u e s t l o a l a * .
he most decidedly stuck.
When our own, the west end of the
back bridge wns on fire, w ith the Mc­ the track. Tlie Me W illiams Special
In recalling Incidents connect«! with
" I tell you It w ill turn us upside
schedule, came over the wires there
FOet out!”
Williams Special ou one side and Den­ was just a tremendouk arrow, shooting Virginia politics some years [ ago a
down,” stormed the president.
HOTEL RATES TO SUIT YOU.
through a truss of Are und half a doseu i>r .incut Virginian recently'related
“ Why, man. I ’m not even asking for ver on the other.
"Do you reoollecL” asked Peter Mc­ was a universal, a vociferous, kick.
Jerry MacElroy yelled. The engineer speechless men ou either side of the to a Washington man an account of
W illiam s, "when yonr Infernal old pot Dispatchers, superintendent of motive a gubscrlptloo. I simply went to ten”—
All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door
“Get out!” snapped the man with the didn’t even look around, only whistled river wultlng for the catastrophe.
nn Investigation rtf election frauds In
power, train master, everybody, pro­
Jerry MacElroy crouched low under the lower section of the state. In the
tested. W e were given about seven gun. mid In a foam the newsman an alnrm buck to Pat Frauds, eased
Railway Ticket Office in the Lobby.
hours to cover 400 miles—the fastest Climbed down. A curious crowd gath- her down the grade a bit, like a man the gauges. Sinclair jumped from his course of tho proceedings it developed
1 close to bear an editorial version reflecting, and watched the smoke and box and atood with n hand on tho that tho ballots In nn important pre-
percentage, by the way, on tha whole
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r .
of the Ten Commandments revised on flames that rose to bar the McW illiams throttle and n hand on the air, the , clu-1 had not been sealed after the
run. -♦
glass crashing around Ids head like ' final o>uut, thereby being exposed to
"This may be grief for young Mc­ the spur of the moment. Felix Ken­ Special out of Denver.
The Five-Nine skimmed across the hall. A blast of fr*ry air aud.flying chi i fraudulent practices.« Tho chairman
W illiam s and for hla dad." grumbled nedy said It was worth going miles to
ders huriKMl und choked him. Tho en­
the chief dispatcher that everting aa beer “T hat’s the coldest deal I ever meadows without a break and pulled gine, ullve with danger, flow like n j of the Investigating committee closely
up n hundred feet from tbe burning
questioned the »‘lection Judge na to
•truck
on
the
plains,
boys,”
declared
he cribbed the press dispatches going
bridge. I t was an old Howe truss and great monkey aloug tho writhing steel. why the proscribed duty of carefully
over the wires about the special, "but the editor. "Talk about your bereav­
So
quick,
so
black,
so
hot
tho
blast
and
securing tho ballots had hoen ueglected.
ed parents. I f the boy doesn’t have a snapped like popcorn as the flames bit
the grief Is not theirs alone.”
so terrific the leap, she stuck lior nose
Into the rotten shed.
“Could you not obtain any mucilage
Then he made a protest to Chicago. chill when that mnn reaches him I
Pat Francis and hla brnkeman ran Into clenn air before the men In the In tho town?”
W hat the answer was none but him­ miss my guess. Ho nets to me as If
forward. Across the river they could cab could rise to It.
“No, sir.” ’
self ever knew. I t came personal, aud lie was afraid Ills grief would get see half a dozen section men chasing
There was a heave lu the middle like
"Could you uot procure some sealing
away
before
bo
got
to
Denver.”
be took It personally, bnt the manner
wildly about throwing Impotent buck­ the lurch of a seasick steamer, aud w ax—some shoemaker's wax, if noth­
Meantime Geòrgie Sinclair was ty­
In which 'be went to work clearing
with It the Five-Nine got her paws on ing else?”
ets of water on the burning truss.
ing
a
silk
handkerchief
around
Ills
track and making a card for the Mc­
"W e’re up against It, Georgle," cried cool Iron and solid ground, aud the
.' No, sir.”
Williams Special showed better speed neck, while Neighbor gave him part­ Francis.
Mattaback aud the blaze, all except u
“W ell, then, sir, why didn’t you go
than the train Itself ever attempted, ing Injunctions. As ha put up hla foot
"Not If we can get across before the dozen tongues which licked the cub out Into the woods and get some resin?
to swing Into the cab the boy looked
and
the
ro
o
f
of
tho
baggngi?
car
a
min­
and he kicked no more.
bridge tumbles Into the river,” return
Do you m n n to tell me that there
ute, were behind. Georgle Sinclair, were no pine trees around there shed­
A fte r all the row M seems Incredible, for all the world like a Jockey, toe In ed Sinclair.
ahaklng
the
hot
gluss
out
of
hla
balr,
bnt they never got ready to leave Chi­ stirrup. Neighbor glanced at hla watch.
"You don’t mean you’d try It?”
ding tears at your Infamous rascal­
“Can you make It by 11 o’clock?” he
cago till 4 o’clock, and when the Mc­
"Would I? W ouldn't I? You know looked alioad through hla frlxaled eye­ ity?’’—Washington 8tar.
lids
and
guve
her
a
full
bead
for
the
Williams Special lit Into our train sys­ growled.
the orders. That bridge la good for an
"M ake what?”
tem It was Ilka dropping a mountain
T h e B ib le e ( t h e P e e r .
hour yet. Pat, If you’re game I ’ll run western bluffs of the valley; then look­
ed at hla watch.
“Denver.”
'
„
lion Into a bunch of steera.
The "Bible of the ro o r” waa one of
It”
I
t
was
tho
one
hundred
and
nine
"Deaver or the ditch, Neighbor,
Freights and extras, local passenger
the most Interesting of the early block
"Holy smoker* touted Pat Francia,
trains even, were used to being aide- laughed Geòrgie, testing the air. “Are who would have run tbe river without tletb mllepoat Just at her nose, and books, which were printed In Belgium
the
dial
read
8:55
to
a
second.
There
A Scotchman, when asked why he always
tracked, bnt when it came to laying you right back there, Pat?” he called any bridge at all I f so ordered. "They
In tho fourteenth century, before the
out the fliers and (I whisper this) the as Conductor Francis strode forward told us to deliver the goods, didn’t was an hour to the good and aeveuty- use of movable type, from blocks.
talked to himself, replied:
alx
miles
and
a
water
to
cover,
hut
White M all and the Manila express the to compare the mountain time.
they ?”
The book consisted of forty leave«,
“Right and tight, and I call It flve-
“In the first place, because I like to talk to
oil began to sizzle In the Journal boxes.
"W e might as well be starting, Pgt,” they were aeveuty-alx of the prettiest printed on one side, making twenty
The freight business, the passenger tw o th irty now. W hat have you. Geòr­ sngge»te<l Jerry MacElroy, who depre­ miles under ballast anywhere, and the When paste«! tog«»tti«»r, and gave a pic­
an intelligent man.
cated losing good time. "There’ll be Five-Nine reeled them off like a cylin­ torial representation of scenes fro «
traffic, the mall schedules of a whole gie r
der press. Seventy-nine minutes later
railway system were actually knock­
the life and passion of our Irarft. with
"Fhte-two-thlrty-two,” answered Sin­ plenty of time to talk after we get Into
“In the second place, because I always like to
Sinclair whistled for tbe Denver yarda.
Tha door waa gently opened by a and ed by the M cW illiam s Special Into a clair, leaning from the cab window. Denver or the Mattaback.”
Suitable Inscriptions from holy w rit In
There
waa
a
tremendous
commotion
hear an intelligent man talk.“
eyed wvm.
"Think quick, Pat,” urged Sinclair.
"And we’re reedy.”
cocked h a t
among the waiting engines. I f there the abbreviated Latin of tbe period.
of a road waa boated eight years ago—
"Then gol” cried Pat Francia, rais­ Hla safety was popping morder.
From the minute It cleared Western
We talk out loud for the Scotchman's reasons.
was one there were fifty big locomo­ The "Blhlla Pauperum." as It waa
you were turned Inside out then, avenue It waa the only thing talked ing tgro Angers.
"Back her np, then, and let her gol”
tives waiting to charivari the M cW il­ called, waa Intended aa an aid to de­
Would rather talk on P-r-i-n-t-i-n-g than
weren't you? And hung up to dry, of. Divisional headquarters and car
“Gol” teheed Blnclalr. and waved a cried Francia. *T*d Just aa lief have liams Special. Tbe wires had told the votion for the uee of poor persons who
tlnk shanties alike were bursting w ith backward amile to the crowd as the that baggage car at the bottom of the
weren't you T”
on any othdr subject.
story In Denver long before, and as could not afford to buy complete* eepteg
pistone took the push and the escapee river aa on my banda any longerT’
The president did recollect
He excitement
tbe Five-Nine sailed ponderously up of tbe Bible. Originally tbe book to be­
We don’t say a word about prices—it goes
There was some sharp tooting; then
On the West End we had all night to wheeled.
could not decently help recollecting.
the grltMron every mogul, every con lieved to have been specially designed
And he recollected how, about that prepare, and at 6 o’clock next morning
A rear w ent up. The little engineer the McWilliams Special backed; back­ •olldated, every ten wheeler, every for tbe poor frlara, who found the pic­
without saying that prices are right.
same time, Peter McW illiam s had one •very man In the operating department shook hla cap, and with a flirting, snak­ ed away aerosa the meadow, halted hog. every awltcb bumper, every air ture« useful when they went about
And our work—if it’s not right, send it back?"
week taken up for him a m atter of was on edge. At precisely 8:08 a. m. ing slide the M cW lllllsms Bpeelsl drew and screamed hard enough to wake hose screamed an uproarious welcome preaching, to llhiatrate their «ermoaa
two millions floating w ith a personal the McW illiam s Special stuck Its nose slipping away betw een* tha shining the deed. Georgle waa trying to warn
Try um . We Print anything.
to Georgle Sinclair and the skyscraper. aud to roues tbe Interest of their co»-
the aectlob men. A t that Instant tbe
*
check and carried It eighteen months into our division, and Foley—pulled off rails tor the Rockies.
They had brokeu «Very record from gragadona. A richly Illuminated MR
Just how M cW illiam s felt we had no door of the baggage car opened, and a McCloud to Denver, and all knew I t of tbe "Bible of tbe Peer.” executed Ik
without security when money could No. 1 with the 406 was heading her
means‘of knowing, but we knew our sharp featured young man peered out.
not be bad In W all street on govern­ dizzy for McCloud. Already the Me
but aa the McW illiam s Special drew tbe Netherlamto about 1AXK te kept ta
W illiam s had m a d j up thirty-one min­ hearts would not beat freely until hla
W hat’s the row? What's all thia sw iftly past every last man In th e f tbo British museum, d a early c o *
ment bonds.
Hftoro,
O re g o n .
Do you that la, have you hereto­ utes on the one hour delay In Chicago, Infernal aperta! should slide safely screeching about, conduct«?” he ante yards stared a t bar cracked, peelett ot tbe “BlbUa Pauperum” wea eeU
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