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>wled Neighbor. “There’s _
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to the yard took fire and threw a / a l ­
aa: il for the company If they do; that’s
lb t
»’r
all How’ll you run them? Give them low glare on the ghastly scene.
log, to which her sou hurried her, ««A
1
aaw
men
get
up
and
fa
ll
again
to
pb'iity of sea room. They’ll have to
they were driven rapidly to the hoa-
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their
knees.
I
waa
shivering
and
wet
8« Hop to make It.”
pltal. When they entered the old fire­
B Cool and reckless planning, taking w ith sw eat The stairw ay waa crush­
man's room together the nurse softly
All kind« of Reservoir and Cistern work in oon-
if i
ed
Into
kindling
wood.
I
climbed
ont
closed the door behind them.
to«- daring chances, straining the flesh
a back window, down on the roof of
> neclion with water system« installed in Jirst
But when they sent for Neighbor and
au l blood, driving the steel loaded to the freight platform and ao to the
me. I suppose we were the tw o biggest
the mapping point—that waa what It
class style and all work done guaranteed.
b .- i
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■ ht
ground. There waa a running to and
M' int. Rut the company wanted re­ fro, useless aud aimless; men were be­ w '«' ■
Copyright, IMO, hr Frank H.
Dynamite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavation«
‘1 c ’ il r iln
I t c ' i t fools In the hospital, trying to look un-
oaoselous of all we saw In the f acts of
sults, wanted the prestige and the pre­
fipearmaa
Jo m t <
side themselves. They plunged through b ..« it., tf ,1 :
lum too. To gain them we were s i ­ wheat up to their knees a t every step. Icj-ic. #0 t ’,e s, gebn told uh . a:,4 I the group at Dad’s bed.
Ho never got his old strength
ted to stretch our little resources to All a t once, above the. frantic hissing cc.ti.l bv»!. .o it, for wii.-n they gvutl*«
yet Neighbor fixed him out, for all th at
tW vttsrtnost
of tho buried akyaaesgsv and the w ild Jacks under tho cab next uiornliit. and The skyscraper, once our pride, waa
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I studied a minute, then turned to calling of the car tlnka, I heard the Neighbor told the wrecking gang licit
so badly stove that we gave up hope
the dispatcher.
stentorian tones o f Neighbor, mounted I I W ilto n «lone had lifted it six im ii -n of rostorir« her for a passenger run.
“Tell Norman to send them out as on a twisted truck, organizing the men tho night lA-'fore on his back the
R stood one Sun­ ns a passenger run with the sky­
So Neighbor built her over Into a sort
day morning In scraper, Neighbor T* asked Hamilton, second 4. That gives the right of way at hand Into a wrecking gang. Soon u r c t k l n g 'tMso fairly snorted at tho of dub engine for abort runa,
a group watch­ turning to the master mechanic.
over every wheel against them. I f people began running up the yard to statement, but Hamilton did *:i.t the and so on; and though Data had vowed
ing for her to - “Soon aa we get this wheat, up on they can’t mako It on that kind of where the skyscraper lay, like another same.
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long ago .when unjustly condemned,
“Son.” muttered. »1».,,I » •
speed
around the high line, out o f the way,” replied schedule, I t Isn’t In the track.”
Samson, prostrate In the midst of the
that bo would never more touch a
th e
Narrows. Neighbor. “W e haven’t h alf engines
Georgle.
alttlug
w
ith
him*
•
I.
want
yod
I t was extraordinary business, rath­ destruction It had wrought. Foremost
throttle, wo got him to take the sky­
Many locomo­ enough to move It, and I get a wire er, sending a train of wheat through among the excited men, covered w ith to w rite a letter for me.”
scraper and tho Acton run.
about
every
six
hours
to
move
It
faster.
“Suiv.”
tives as I have
on a passenger schedule, practically as dirt and blood, staggered Dad H a m il­
And when Geòrgie, who takes the
seen and rid ­ Every siding’s blocked, clear to Bel­ the second section of our eastbound ton.
’ Tvo b een s e n d in g m oney to i y boy flier every other day. Is off duty he
grade.
H
ow
many
o
f
those
00,000
den, a new one
btn k east.” explained Dud feebly.. • I climbs Into Dud's cab, shoves the old
“Whero’s M cN eal?’ cried Neighbor.
flier, but we took hair lifting chances
Is always a wonder to me—chokes me pound cars can you take over Bev­ on the plains
tol l you ho’ a lu school.”
Ham ilton pointed to the wreck.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
gentleman aside and shoots around the
erly
bill
w
ith
your
skyscraper?*
up, even, It means so much. I hear
“I know. Dad.”
“Why didn’t he Jump?’ yelled Neigh­
yard In the rejuvenated skyscraper at
?t was noon when tho orders were
H e wns asking both men. The en­
men rave over horses and marvel a t It
“I
haven
t
been,
able
to
se
n
d
a
n
y
bor.
Both in Workmanship and Price
a hnlr raising rato of speed.
flashed. At 3 o'clock No. 4 was due to
when I think of the Iron horse. I bear gineer looked a t his chum.
Ham ilton pointed at the twisted sig­ since I'vo been by. but I'm golr t to
A fter awhile tho old engine got so
“I reckon maybe thirty-five or forty,” leave Zunesvlllo. For three hours I
them chatter of distance, and my mind
-
-O llice at F u rn itu re Store.
se
n
d
so
lv
e
tt
hen^
I
g
e
t
m
y
relief.
Not
lull of alkali that Geòrgie gave her a
kept the fflros busy warning all op nal tower; the red right still burned lu
turns to the unnlbllator. I bear them said McNeal. “Eh, Dad?*
so
m
rteh
as
I
used
to
sem
i.
I
w
a
n
t
y
o
u
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new' name—Sishi W ater Sal—and It
“ Maybe, eon,“ growled Hamilton, orators and trainmen, even switch en­
Iwag of ships, and I think of the ship
h a n g s to her yet. We thought the best
You changed the algnnls on him,” to k in d of explain why.”
.... gines and yardmagters, of tho wheat
th a t, plows the mountains and rlvera “and break my back doing It?”
W h it's ble-Rest naut«;: Dad, end of her ha<l gouo in tfio Harvard wreck,
he cried savagely.
“ W hat does, tt
“ I gave you a helper once, and you special, second 4.
and plains. And when they talk of
where ib #s he live?”
but thero came a time when Dad and
The flier, the first section and regu­ mean? W e had rig ht against every­
kicked him off the tender,” ’ retorted
speed—what can 1 think of but her?
“ It ’s a h w y e r that looks a lter h im - boda
atcr Sal showed us we were
lar passenger train, wns cheeked out thing. W hat does It m ean?’ he raved.
As the new engine rolled into the Neighbor. v
l > w n m w i w i v i m n < i w w w i i i i i i w w j w w » i i i w i i i » i i i i w n i i lim i ’
man that tends to my business back very much m'.atak'eu.
In a frenzy.
“Don’t w ant anybody raking ashes of Zanesville on time. Second 4, which
yards my heart beat quicker. H er lines
Neighbor auswerod him never a there.”
were too Imposing to call strong. They for me—not while I'm drawing fun meant Georgle McNeal, Dad, the sky-
“ Well. what's his mime?’
'l'»vo D o c t o r « .
’
Sf-raper and fifty toads' of wheat, re­ word; he only put his hand on Dad’s
were massive, yet so simple you could time,” Dad frowned.
Almost every one has mad», hla-Jest
“Scaylor—Ephraim Seaylor,”
But the upshot of It was that we put ported out at 8:10. ’ While we worked shoulder.
draw them, like the noedle snout of s
“Hcaylon?” .echoed Géorgie In anuize- atiout tlie proneness of doctors to dis­
“ Find him first! Find him!” he re­
the skyscraper a t hauling w h ea t jm d on opr time card Neighbor lu the dls-
Mollie, to n very point.
agree. tho oue prescribing exactly an
peated, w ith a strain In his voice I meiit.
w
ithin
a
week
she
wäs
doing
the
wmfc
patoh
o
s'a
4tffloo
at;rons
the
hall
figured
Every bearing looked precise, every
"Yes. Why, do you know him?”
opimelte course from that ordered by
never
henrd
till
th
e
n
,,a
n
d
the
tjvo
of
a
double
header.
Joint looked supple, as she swept mag­
out that tho wheat train would enrich
by, th a t’s the man mother and I another, hut toot every one hns had an
I t was May, and a thousaud miles the company Just 111,000, tolls and giants hurried away together. When
nificently up aud checked herself, pa be­
had so much trouble with. I wouldn’t ojiportunlty to conduct such an experi­
I
reached
tho
skyscraper,
burled
In
the
east of us, In Chicago, there waa trou­ premium. “If Ik «loesn’t break In two
ing, In front of us.
w rite to that mnn.
lie's a rascal. ment ns was made by the late Baron
Foley was In the cab. H e had been ble In the wfieat p it on the board of on Beverly bill,” growled Neighbor, thick of the smash, roaring like a vol­ Dad.”
Lutz, formerly prim e minister o f Ba­
cano,
the
pair
were
already
Into
the
asst on a lay-off and so happened to trade, You would hardly suspect whit» w ith a qu a l m . --------------- ------ -— ----------
i’W huL.dld -hc ever do to von and varia,
III - i i I, was once severely
Jam
llke
a
T/raee
dT
feifets,
htinnng
bring In the new monster, wild, from queer things that wheat scramble gave
your, mother?’]
On tho dispatcher's sheet, which la a
ttoun.T.-d in bitfTtnsnBottrregs- l i e
the river shops.
rise to, uffectlng Georgle McNeal and sort o f panorama, I watched the big for the engine crews. I t seemed an
I'll tell you, Dnd. thon. h It'D a m at­ wound In o.ue leg was much like that
She was built In Pennsylvania, but old mau Ham ilton and a lot of other train whirl past station after station, hour, though It was much less, before ter I don’t talk nlsmt much. Mv fa- In tlie other. I t struck him that there
Ibe fellows on the Missouri end of our fellows away out on a railroad di­ drawing steadily nearer to us,, and do­ they found any one; t;hen they brought
w « » « rim fice to study tho ways of the
line thought nothing could ever safely vision on the westeru plain, but thia ing it, the marvel, on full passenger out 55'# fireman. Neighbor found him.
surgical profession and beguile the
Rut his back waa broken. Back again
be put lh to our bands until they had ' was the way of It:
time. I t wns a great feat, and Georgle they wormed through twisted trucks,
long hours of hla convalescence. H e
A man sitting In a little office on
stopped It en route aud looked It over.
McNeal, whose nerve aud brain were under splintered beams—In and around
uccorillngly called In one doctor and
‘•llo w does she run, Foley?” asked Lasallo street wrote a few words on
guiding the tremendous load, was and over—choked w ith heat, blinded
gave him charge of his right leg. but
Neighbor, glg |tlng silently over the a very ordinary looking sheet of paper
breaking records with every milestone. by steam, shouting as they groped,
told him nothing nbout the wound In
toy.
and touched a button. T h a t brought a
Tliqy^ were due in H a r v a r d ' at' fl listening for word or cry or gasp.
the other, and then calk'd In another
Cool as an icebox,” said Fol«y, colored boy, and he took the paper
doctor for ills left leg. keepltog him
Soon wo heard Dad’s voice In a d if­
swinging down. “8be’a a regular sum­ out to a young man who sat at the o’clock. The first 4, our tiler, pulled In
and out oh time, meeting 55, the west­ ferent cry, one that meant everything,
similarly in Ignornnce about the
mer resort. L ittle stiff on the hills eastern end of a private wire.
wouuded right leg. -The doctors adopt­
yet.’’
K The next thing we knew orders be­ bound overland freight, at the second and the wreckers, turning like beavers
ed a very different m etho^.of treat­
through a doaen blind trails, gathered
“W e ’ll take that out of her,” mused gan to come In hot from the presi­ atntlon east of Harvard—Redbud.
Neighbor and I snt with the dis­ all clo®« Jo the big fireman, lie was
ment, hut both wounds healed at about
Nelghltor, climbing Into the cab to look dent's office^-tbu president o f the road,
the same tfme. f When tho baron’s legs
her over. “ Boya, thia is up In a bal­ If you please—to get that wheat on the patchers up In their office, smoking. under u great pleco of the cab where
S k ate s for Sale.
S k a tin g , 25 cents
wi-re ipilte well be derived a great deal
loon,** lie added, pushing his big head hjgh line Into Chicago, and to gat It The wheat train wns now due from the none could follow, and he was crying
west, and, looking at my watch, I for a bar. They passed him a bar
of amusement from getting ttte doc­
through the cab window and peering there quickly.
tors together nn<l mystifying them with
down at the ninety Inch drivers under
Trainmen, elevator men, superin­ stepped to the western window. ~ A l­ other men. careless of life and limb,
questions nbout the way eacb had
him.
tendents of motive power, were spur­ most Immediately I heard the long, pe­ tried to crawl under and In to him, but
treated “his leg.”
I grew dizzy once or tw ice looking red w ith special orders and special culiarly hollow blast of the skyscraper be warned them back. Who but
A '
mnn baked twenty years In an engine
for the ponies,” declared Foley, biting bulletins.
y
w
Farmer«, startled by the whistling for tho upper yard.
Som e T h o n # h l F or F o»d.
“ She’s coming,” I exclaimed.
off a piece of tobacco aa be hitched at great prices offering, hauled night and
cab could stand the steam that poured
I f people xvere ns particular to have
his overalls. “She looms like a sky­ day. Every old tub w e bad lu the
The boys crowded to the window, on him where he lay?
their food lit their Insides ns they are
scraper. Say, Neighbor, I ’m to get her shops and on the scrap waa overhauled but Neighbor happened to glance to
Neighbor, Just outside, flushing
to have their clothes fit their outsides,
myself, ain’t I? ” asked Foley, w ith his and hustled Into the service. The di­ the east.
light, heard tho labored strain of his
they would be hetteV satisfied w ith the
nsual nerve.
vision danced w ith excitement. Every
“What's that coming In from the breathlug, saw him getting half up,
world and themselves.
When McNeal gets through w ith bushel of wheat on It must be In Chi­ Junction, Bailey?" he exclaimed, turn­ bend to the bar, and saw the Iron give
twF w w y w w n r w v ’i r v w v w »
her, yea,” returned Neighbor' gruflly cago by the morning o f M ay 31.
W hen good digestion waits on appe­
ing to the local dispatcher. W e looked like lead In his bauds as he pried
tite a man may either darw to love or
giving her a thimble of steam and try­
mightily.
F o r tw o weeks we worked every­ and Bnw a headlight tn the east,
fight.
.
ing the air.
thing to the 41m lt The skyscraper led
Neighbor heard and told me loug aft
“Thnt's 65."
he
oro
The fo<sl that fits the stomach la the
“ What!” cried Foley, affecting aur- any .two engines on the line. Even
erward how the old man flung the bar
»Where «16 they meet?’
food that riihsi the world,
¥ r la e .¿ Y o u going to 'give her to the Dad Ham ilton was glhd to cry enough " ’S^fty-tTve takes the long siding In aw ay w ith an Impreeatlon and cried
bserver
kid?”
. —— j.,
ir you forgot what yon nav« to eaL
and take a helper. W e doubled them from the Junction”—which was two for one to help him, for a minute
“I am,” returned the master median
then yon__uiny bet you won’t forget
every day, and the w ay the wheat flew miles east—“and she ought to be on It meant a life now. The boy lying pinned
what you have eaten and w ill continue
1« unfeelingly, and be kept bis word.
over the line toward the lower end right pew,” added the dispatcher anx
under the shattered cab was roasting
Georgia McNeal, Just reporting for o f Lake Michigan was appalling to loualy, looking over the muster mechan­ In a Jet of live Bteam. The master me­
to eat It unless your Judgment la aa
weak as your digestion.
work a fte r the session In his cab w ith speculators. I t waa a battle between ic’s, shoulder. 'Neighbor Jumped us I f a chanic crept In.
the loose end of a connecting rod, waa two commercial giants, and a battle ballet had struck him. "She’ll never
Indigestion Is the devil's workshop.
By signs Dad told him w hat to do
Son," he piop^'l in the (O-tnniM.'ioi hop,
Invited to take out the skyscraper— to the death. I t shook not alone the take a siding tonight. She’s coming and then, getting on his knees, crawl
Dyspepsia uncovers a multitude of
"d on ’t j.ou /.note »«ci’ ” *
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488, Class I I —aa she was listed, aud country; It shook the world. B ut that down the main track. What's her or­ ed straight Into the daah o f the white ther had trouble back thero fifteen or sins.
I t ’s easy going when your stomach
Dad Hamilton o f course took the scoop was nothing to ua< our orders were ders?” lie demanded furiously.
Jet—crawled Into It and got the cab sixteen years ngo. Ilo was runnlug nu
almply to move the wheat. And the
to fire her.
“Meeting orders for first 4 at Red­ on his shoulder«.
engine aud had a wreck. Thero were works nil right.
They get everything good that’s go­ wheat moved.
No food Is sometimes good food.
bud, second 4 here, 78 nt Glencoe.
Crouching an Instant, the giant mus­ some passengers killed. The dispatch­
The last week found ns pretty well Great Jupiter,” cried tlie dispatcher,
ing,” grumbled Foley. ‘
A nit-nl of victuals on the table Is
es of his back set In a tremendous er manuged to throw tin« blame on fa-
“They are good people,” retorted cleaned up. but the high price brought and his face went sick and senred, effort.
The wreckage snapped and thor, aud they Indicted htm for man­ •Voi t!i‘r l v o ' i (he stomach.
Neighbor. H e also assigned a helper grain out of cellars and wells, the buy­ “they ve forgotten second 4!"
An oyerloiidcd stomach la bound to
groaned, the knotted legs alowly and slaughter. lie pretty uear went crnzj',.
to the old fireman. I t was a new thing ers sold—a t least. It brought all the
“They ll think of her a long time pnlnfully straightened, th ^ cab for a and all of a sudden he disappeared, break down.
P ro tlan d , O reg o n .
with us then, a fellow w ith a slice bar
I ’tssl that won’t set on the stoinnrti
dead,’’ roared the master mechanic sav- passing Instant rose In the air, and In and -we uever heard of him from Unit
to tickle the grate, and Dad, of course,
*<ely, Jumping to the west window. that Instant Neighbor dragged Georgle day to this.
But this man Scaylor, 'shouldn’t have a chance to.
OSCAR ANPKKSON MANAGER »
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kicked. H e always kicked. Neighbor
“Throw your red lights! There's the McNeal from out the vise of death and mother stuck to It, knew something
An overful stomach is a pasture for
skyscraper now!”
wasted no words. H e simply* sent the
passed him, like a pinch bar, to the about where father was, only he al­ nightmares.—W . J. I.a nipt on In New
t e a r Ita ti
i t i
M s r .- is a S tr e e t:
helper back to wiping until the old fire
H e r head shot that Instant around tnen w aiting next behind. Then Neigh­ ways deuied It.”
York Herald.
man should cry enough.
the coal ehutos less than a mile away, bor pulled Dad back, blind now and
Trembling like a leaf. Dnd raised
C ln lie r W r l t l n * .
and 55 going dead against her. I stood senseless. When they got the old fire­ up on “his ell>ow. “ Whut's your moth­
Very likely you know that a new
C orner 7th and Stark Streets. engine
like one palsied, my eyes glued on tlje
T h e art of'secret writing, or w riting
must be regularly broken, aa a
man out he njade a pitiful struggle to er's name, son? What's your name'.”
It 1» n e * and it. room* are provided with
Free bue to and from trains
burning eye of the big engine. As slie
horse Is broken, before It Is ready for
Geòrgie looked confused. “ I ’ll tell in cip h er, w .si according to Polybius,
running water and long distance tele­
pull himself together.
lie tried to
Invenfed by .-Eneas, author of n trea­
whipped past u street arc light I caught
you, Dnd. There's uothlug to he asbnm
steady hard work. And as Georgia M<-
phone*. European plan. Rate*
stand
up,
but
the
sweat
broke
over
R ates by the day
a glimpse of Georgia McNeal’s head out
ed of. I was foolish enough, i told tise on tacth-i and other works. H e
N«al was itot very strong yet, he was
»1 per day and upward
hhn, and he sank In a heap at Nelgh-
of the cab window. Ho always rodo
you once, to go out on a strike w ith pr-liK-t-d twenty methods of w riting
Highest priced room $3
appointed to do the breaking.
l»or’s fe e t
baraheaded if the night yrns warm, and
per day.
the engineers down there.
1 xvns In el|>her, which no person could un­
For tw o months It was a 'picnic-
T hat was the saving o f Georgle Mc­
6 0 c, 7 6 c, $ 1 . 0 0 , $ 1 .6 0 , $ 2 .
I knew it waa he; hut suddenly, like a
only a kid, aud wo wero all blacklisted. fold, hut we ilouht much whether they
light runs and easy lay overs. A fte r
Neal,
and
out
there
they
still
tell
you
flash, ills bead went In. I knew why as
So 1 used my middle name, McNeal. w ou ld preserve this quality nt the pres­
the smash a t the Narrows Hamilton
European Plan
lift of Dad Hamilton's.
ent day. It la uo Jess strange than
well as If iny-T>yes were his eyes and at>ouLthnt
Chan. Wright, President.
had sort of taken the kid engineer un
• W ^ p u t him on the cot at the hos­ My full name Is George McNeal Sin­
true th it tills art. so Important In di­
my thoughts his thouglits. He had seen
clair.”
der
his
wing,
and
It
was
pretty
gen­
A Good Clean Fam ily Hotel
M. C. Dickinson, Manager.
plomacy, as long as couriers are Hable
red signals where he had every right pital next to his engineer. Georgle,
The old fireman made a pulnful ef
erally understood that any one who el
dreudfully bruised add scalded, caihe fort to sit up, to speak, hut ho choked. to Iw Intercepteta. was held In abhor­
to look for white.
bowed Georgle McNeal must reckon
But red siguals n o w -to stop her—to on fast In spite of his hurts, but the Ills face contraeteti, and Ge >rg!e rose rence by Hie elector Frederic I I . , who
with ills donghty old fireman. So tba
pull her fiat ob her haunches like a doctor said Dad had wrenched a ten­ frightened.
W ith a herculean effort considered it as a diabolical Invention.
two used to march up and down street
broncho? Shake a weatlier flag at a don In that frightful effort, and he lay the old man raised himself up ond Trlthemfiis, ahtiot of Spanhelm, had
together, as much like chums as a very
there a very sick and very old man grasped Geòrgie'# hands.
cyclo« i«.'
composed several xvorks to revive this
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young engineer and a very ofd fireman
I saw the fire stream from her driv­ long a fte r tlie young engineer wns up
Son,” ho gasped to tho it tfialshed b ra n -h of knowledge, and Bovitle, an
possibly could be. They talked togeth­
Ignorant mathematician, tielng unable
ers. I knew they wero churning In and around telling of hla experience.
boy, “don't you know me?”
er, walked together and ate together.
to comprehend the extraordinary terms
“When wo cleared the chutes I saw
the sand. 1 knew he had twenty air
“O f course I know you, Dad. V hat
Foley was as Jealous as a cat of H am ­
he made use of to explain hla method,
white slganls, I thought,” he said to me tho m atter w ith you? Lie down.”
curs behind him sliding. W hat of it?
Nearest Hotel to Business Center, Banks and Depot.
ilton, because he had brought Georgle
published that the work was full of dl-
Two
thousand
tons
were
sweeping
at
Dad’s
bedside.
“I
knew
we
had
the
“Boy,
I
’m
your
own
father.
My
out west and felt a sort of guardian In­
aboljcil mysteries. Poissevtn repeated
forward
like
an
avalanche.
W
hat
did
right
of
way
over
everything.
I
t
wns
name
Is
Dnvld
Hamilton
Sinclair.
1
terest In that quarter himself. Really
bruins or pluck count for now w ith 55 a bustle anyway on that schedule, Mr. had tho trouble, Geòrgie.” He choked tho 'tossevtloo, and- Frederic, In a holy
anybody would love Georgle McNeal;
dancing along like a schoolgirl right Reed, you know that—an aw fu l hustle up like a .child, and Qoqrgte McNeal zed, ohlercd the original work of Trl-
old Dad Ham ilton was proof enough of
Into the teeth o f It?
with our load. I never choked her a went white and scffreil; then he grnsp themius, which he had In hla library,
that.
to bq burned gs tlie invention of the
I don’t know how the other men felt. notch to run the yards. Didn’t mean ed the gray haired man In bin ifrins.-
One evening, Juat after pay day, 1
devil.
As for me, my breath choked In my to do It w ith the Junction grade to
When
I
dropjM*,!
In
an
hour
later
they
aaw the pair In the postofflee lobby
throat, my kbees shook, and a “deadly climb Just ahead of ua. n u t I looked were talking hysterically. Dad was ex­
G r a e e le a e C h llS r e n .
getting their checks cashed. Presently
nausea aelsed me.
Unable to avert , out again, and, by hokey, I thought I ’d plaining how he hail l«een sending
Michael Minot, a French preacher,
the two stepped over to the money
the horrible blunder, I saw Its hideous gone crasy, got color blind—red sig­ money to Scaylor overy month, and who died In Pnris in 1518* was noted
order window. A moment later each The cab for a patting inttan i rote in results.
nals! O f course I thought I most have Georgle was eou tendi ng that neither fo? his oecentrlcltlea in the pulpit and
came away w ith a money order.
the air.
Darkness bid the worst of lb s sight; been wrong the first time I looked. I he nor his mother had ever seen a cent the rapidity with which he changed
“Is that where you leave your boarded wheat and pioch o f the seed
It waa the sound that appalled. Chil­ choked her. I threw the air. I dump­ of IL R ut one great fact overshadowed from humor to pathos, from the com­
wealthy Georgle T' I asked aa he came wheat, and the 28th day of the month
dren asleep In sod spantlee miles from ed the gravel. Heavens! She never all the villainy that n ig h t-fa th e r and monplace to the Iteautiful.
“There
up te apeak to me.
found fifty cars of wheat still In the where the tw o engines reared In aw ­ felt It! I couldn’t figure bow we were son were united and huppy nini a mes­ wero once pillories for swearers,” ba
“Part of It goes there every month, Zanesville yards. I was at Harvard
poop/» ttop
ful shock Jumped In their cribs at that wrong, but there was the red light. I sage had already gone hack to the old said on a certain occasion, “but If the
M r. Reed,” he smiled. “Checks are
working on a time card when the word crash. F ifty -fiv e ’s little engine barely yelled, ’Jump, Dad!’ and he yelled. homo from Georgle to his mother, tell­ luw were enforced now two-thlrds of
rqpnlng light, too, now—eh, Dad?”
ing her the gmal news.
came, and behind It a special from
the empire would l*e In the stocks and
**A young fellow like you ought .to the general manager stating there was checked the akycraper. She spilt It ’Jump, eon!* Didn’t yon, Dad?
“And that Indictment wns wiped out there would bo the child of five years
like a banana. She bucked like a fran­
“H e Jumped, but I wasn’t ever going
be putting money away In the bank.”
$1,000 premium d It for the company, tic horse and leaped fearfully ahead. to Jump, and my engine going full long ago against father,” said Georgi» and the dotard of eighty who has
T h e
D a n « « , O re g o n ,
said I.
to me, "but that rascal Scaylor kept only tiro teeth remaining to fling out
besides tariff, I f we got that wheat Into There was a blinding explosion, a sud­ against a red lamp. Not much.
“W
ell,
you
see
I
have
a
bank
back
Hteam Heat.
Electric Lights
Electric Call Bells.
w riting him for money to light It with an oath.” Changing suddenly to de­
den aw ful burst of ateam. The win­
Chicago by Saturday morning.
I 'kind of dodged down behind the
In Pennsylvania, a bank that la now
The train end of It didn’t bother me dows crashed about our ears, and wa head; when she etruck It was biff, and and to pay for my seliooling-nnd tills nounce those who neglected the «gad
sixty years old and getting gray
any. It waa the motive power that were dashed to the w all and floor like she Jumped about twenty feet up was thq kind of sclioollug 1 wus get­ parents who had cherished them In
' * H O T E L R A T E S T O S U IT Y O U .
haadad. I haven't sent her much since
kept ua studying. However, w e figured lead pencils. A baggage truck, whip- straight She didn’t? W ell, It seemed ting all tho time. Wouldn't that kill prosperity' he aald: “See the treee flour­
I've been on the relief, so I ’m trying
pod up from the platform below, came like IL Then It was biff, biff, biff, one rou?”
ish and recover their lea veal It la
tq.m aks up a little now for my old that by running McNeal with the sky­
I couldn’t aleep tiff I had hunted up
All O R & N Trains Stop at Front Door .
through the heavy aaah and down on after another. W ith that train behind
scraper
back
wild
we
could
put
all
the
their root that has produced all, but
mammy.”
Neighbor
and
told
him
about
It,
and
tho
dispatcher's
table
like
a
brickbat,
when the branches are loaded with
her she’d have gone through Beverly
Railway Ticket Office In the Lobby.
Where does yours go, Dad?” I wheat behind her In one train. Aa It
happened, Neighbor was at Harvard and aa w e scrambled to onr feet a hill. Did you ever buck snow w ith a next morning we wired transportation flowers and fruits they yield oothlaff
asked.
back
for
Mrs.
Sinclair
to
come
out
on.
shower o f wheat suffocated us. The rqtary, Mr. Reed? W ell, that waa
to the root. . This Is an Image of
*
“Me.” answered the old man eva­ too.
I^esa than a week afterwnrd a gentle
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie t o r .
Can they ever get over Beverly with floor heaved? Freight cars slid Into abont IL •▼•a to the rolling and heav­ little old woman stepped off the filer at children who prefer their
sively. “I ’ve got a boy back east; g e t-1
the depot like battering rams. In the ing. Dad, w ant to He down? La’ ma
moot and to game away tbelr own (be­
ting to be a big one too. H e’s 1« «0, Neighbor?’ I asked doubtfully.
Eaneavllle sad Into the uruis of floor-
height of the confusion an ell tank
times to giving their old
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