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THE FAMOUS *
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ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1882.
BOIL IT DOWN.
Whatever yoti have to say, my friend,
Whether witty or grave or gay,
Condense it as mucli as ever you can,
And say h the readiest way ;
And whether you write of rural affairs
Or matters and things in town,
Just take a word of friendly advice—
Boil it doY/ii.
For if you go sputtering over a page
When a couple of lines would do.
Your buttei is spread so much, you see,
That the bread looks clearly through ;
So, when you have a story to tell
And would like a little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my
friend—
Boil it down.
When writing an article for the press,
Whether prop or verse, just try
To settle your thoughts in the fewest
words,
And let them tie crisp and dry ;
And when it is finished and you suppose
It is done exactly brown.
Just look it over again and then—
Boil it down.
For editors do not like to print
An article lazily long, ,
And the genera! reader does not care
For a couple of yards of song
So gather your wits in the smallest space
If you want a little renown,
And every time you write, my friend—
Boil it down.
ExNGINtt m 1.
“Did you over ride in the ‘cab’
of a .locomotive ?’*
A reporter, you know, never
allows a chance to slip wherein
information is lo be fairly gain
ed.
When burly-Tiamed and large
hearted Buck Smith, engineer of
No. 1, offered me a ride in his
“cab,” you may depend—lo use
a slang phrase—“l was there.”
Smith was a popular fellow.
But his extreme quietness of dis
position was remarked by every
one, and there was an ever-pres
ent, unmistakable expression of
sadness in his handsome eyes,
withal his glance was as keen as
an eagle’s when on the run, ami
looking out ahead. He was run
ning the St. Louis night express
that banks into Washington be
fore heading westward. 1 was
going as far as the capital.
I clambered, silly and unseen,
into the “cab,” tyid was instantly
alert for everything, though care
ful to keep myself out of the
way.
Promptly at 7:30 the gong
sounded. There was a hissing of
steam, continuous, doleful clang
ing of the bell, puff I puff! and
out of the glare of.C station
we glided into darkness —dark-
ness pitchy and wet with falling
snow.
Grim, stern, rigid as a statue,
stood Buck. Ifell to wondering
whethe*' an engineer’s arm never
grew tired, when I knew that his
l rusty Land did not dare once to
be removed from that small lever
iu a route of hundreds of miles,
white scores of human beings
slept tranquilly in the cars be
hind him—slept, and few indeed
had thought to qffesr a prayer for
the brave, resolute man, in whose
care their very lives depended.
To my surprise, with the in
crease of speed, there seemed to
be less noise in the “cab.” And
it was just as I began to realize
tlrra, that* the incident occurred
ivhicti Tnow relate to you.
We had passed Winans. I
knew there was no road to signal
for! but Buck suddenly exclaim
ed :
“Blow, Harry!”
The fireman pulled the cord,
and out on the night shreiked a
peculiar whistle, unlike any 1 had
eyer heard.
At the same time, Harry, the
young fireman glanced at me
strangely, and shook his head.
I looked, instinctively at Buck
Smith, and what I saw made my
reporter’s heart jump. There
was a mystefy in the cab of en
gine No. 1.
The grim hand wts still fight
on the lever, tire sletn, sad eyes
still fixed Unswervingly ahead ;
but I saw on one cheek, a single
shining, rolling (ear.
He Was bending forward slight
ly. His rough shirt*was Open at
the front, where, suspended by a
letliern string, where two rings—
one a plain gold band, the other j
set with a beautiful, gleatfiing ;
diamodd. These rings were!
pressed kissingsv to his lips.
“Buck’s a prayin’!!” said the!
fireman, close to mv ear.
Then Buck.; as he carefully hid*
away IhiYring:
*“I fear that toot, Nat ?'
“Yes.”
“Guess what it*s for?’’
“How should I?”
“For my little girl.”
“Why, I didn’t know you had a
child. Buck.’’
“Well, the whole world doesnH
know it—that’s a fact. Coal up.
Harry, here’s the grade.”
The iron door was wrenched
open, like Ihe fiery, seething
mouth of a dragon, white the fire*
man plied his shovel,
AH had transpired in less tlian
ten seconds. As the glare lighted
broadly on the dark night, 1 saw
on the bank by the track road
saw, as we sped like the wind—a
I female figure, who waved a ian—
i tern to and fro.
“God bleas her, Nat —that’s my
Dolly V' Then, presently: “I
don’t know, but- I may as well
tell you about it —though I don't
tell everybody, mind you. I’ve
only had my home here a few
years—used to live near Point o’
Rocks. As pretty a cottage it
was. for a pretty wife, as any man
need wish for. You haven’t
known me long, or you’d have
heard that I married a girl who'
! expected to inherit handsomely,
i But I like you, Nat. N<_ matter
| haw the match came out. -She
! was a very delicate' and very
j beautiful prise for.rough man
, like I am. 1 won her away from
i a chap who was bet ter off, better
looking. than I. llis name was
Carrol Conrad. I was never a
jealous man ; 1 did not even re
quest* my wife to givejup his ac
quaintance. So I thought noth
ing ol it when sometimes wbffft I
returned from a trip she would
say;
* ‘Buck, dear, Carrol has been
here to see me.*
“But one night, Nat, there
came a blow that well nigti drove
me mad. —Wait a minute. Blow
for the.relay, Harry.*’
Thrice, four times, shrieked
the prompt whistle, and present-
Ip the tram came to a halt. Not
for long. There was*a bang on
the little gong over my head
that started me.
Again we streamed (inward.
No more stoppings until we
readied Washinglou now; no
more interruptions, except the
signal blows for curves and
roads. I was almost breathless
ly still, watching Buck, who. it
seemed to.me, had not moved a
muscle or turned an eye from his
! “lookout’' since he kissed the
! taiismamc ring.
“I found the cottage darkeud,*’
he resumed, abruptly, after we
had rumbled across the viaduct.
“There was no light to welcome
me, like there had always been,
and—and, Nat, my life was gone.
I found on the parlor table a note
that first set ray blood on fire,
then turned my heart to stone.
As near as 1 can remember it was
something like this:
‘“Buck, dear, forgive me ! My
life has been so lonesome since
marrying you, and the temptation
is so great 1 that 1 have consented
to go with Carroll. lam not ail
wicked; I couldn’t help it; for
give me.’
“I thcroght it all over as in a
dream, Poor little thing*
she didn’t see Much of me for
love-making, {Hat’s a fact. Then
some sort of dertion caused me to
write a curse upern the pair, and I
pinned it to the table top with
my penknife.
“Turning round, I found little
Dolly standing in the doofWay.
crying. She had been looking
everywhere in vain for imßstfrra.
At last this treasure Was left to
me. I
Ah, Nat, it Was this precious j
charge that saved me from going
st raight to the dogs. ** j
“1 dffccH the Cottage. f#?jjfne<l
trir engine, irrfd brought Dolly off
here to live. I'd saved a little
sum. A year went try. ftien
came another eventful night—a
higfit - as ?sd to trie as ever human
being knew. The wind howled a
gale: the snow was deep, and
falling fast. Dolly c.:rne running
to me, crying loudly.
‘“Papa—oh, papa—there’s some
body lying on the track' It’s a
woman. I can’t pull her off; and
the Si. Louis express is coming.’’,
“Nat, I readied the track in two
big leaps. It: another moment 1
had grasped up a female, who
was half buried in the snow • and
just in time, for this sairfe engine
—No. I—weut whizzing past.
When I had laid her on the
lounge, I—Nat, it was my little
lost wile! What a coming hack!
Oh, how different she loeked ! I
saw death ii. her delicate face and
lorm —always delicate, as I said
before. Bhe opened nereyes and
called out in a voice that seem*
to dweil in my ears now;
dear,! is it you at
last ?*’
“Then, as 1 s:ooJ dumb and
trembling,she told me her pitiful
story. Carrol Conard had come
to her with a tetter from her fath
er, who was in New York saying
that lie was dying, aud wauled
uer by ins bedside. Lillie Dolly
was at a friend's house, three
miles back in the country. No
lime could be lost. She went
with Conrad. Not until they were
bevoud Philadelphia, did she
learn, from his own lips, tire das
tardly ruse.
“The letter waa a forgery. The
hasty uota of e&planalioit she had
left for me, had; been adroitly
exchanged fot the one I found —
another base torgery. She was
now blasted in my sight, he told
her. Soon her name would be
bandied in slanderous gossip.
Had she belter not go with him,
and lei llis devotion repay for the
trickl She spurned the wretch,
and called on the train conduc
tor to protet her, continuing her
ways to New York.
“litre she found kef father
dead. He had runtured an arte
ry in excitement over a specula
tion failure that cost him every
dollar of bis fortune. She was
then without kindred, without
money, and her few early friends
scattered and lost. Site managed
to make her way bad; ♦ but no
one could tell her whose I was.
She found Conrad’s forgery with
my bitter curse on the back of it.
It must have driven her insane.
“God meant that I should
know these thiugs before she
died,...., In hec. wandering f search
for me, she had wine almost to
my very door unknowingly.
Eight Uiete Hie resolved to die —
to die by throwing herself under
the SL Lop is night express. Con
sumption did it’s work soon, ad
ded to that nights exposure. I
laid in her grave, Nat, and my
heart with her.
“That was five years ago. I
went back on Lite road and got
engine No. 1. Dolly is a big girl
now. And every time I iun this
train out, you’ll find her by the
track with a lantern—ram. snow
o starlight, Nat —wasting to hear
VOL VII. SO. 29.
me bio#, and 10 see that thete f s
nobody on the rails.- And the dip#
lantern.- fcfr a kiss, you krtOw.
“Engineer*,- like sailor*, have
some supersition; and mmi*
times, #ben I pass the spot
where 1 snatched unhapoy wife
from a horrible death, I feel
a shudder go tlirongh me, as if I'd
actually struck somebody with
the catche*.
Not another vfofrd from Buck,
during the remainder of the ride/
At the Washington depot, Wf
parted with a heavy good-by.
A few years later, quite by ac
cident, While at C -Station
on reportoriai bumies, 1 heard
that good old Buck Was dead.-
His. da ugh ter, Doliy had married
and was living saugiy among the
green hills of Anacostia. D. (3.
• —-e* ■ -
A Legal ‘Tender/
The other day a sfisrp-dooking
youth walked up quickly to the
counter of the post-office hr a
town, and emptying a bag of cop
pers thereon, asked the clerk, who'
was attending to other customers/
tor a doLar's worth of of one-=
•cent stamps.
“ Oh , yon i>e bothered?* #ad
the answer. “That is not a legal
tender; it is ail odd copper.'’
“What is a legal tender,- tlren P’
asked the bov.
“Why, one cent is a legal ten
der for a stamp.”
“Olif” exclaimed the youth, “is
it 1 Come on then,” passing a coin
trom the heap. “A oue-certt
stamp, please/’
“The clerk gave him one.
“Another, please.’’
A second one was given him'
‘'Auo—”
“Here, stop that,” the clerk
?aid. “Give me the money.- It
will b*e the shortest way to get
rid of you.”
After count iug the money,- htf
gave the value ihereot in stamp*
lo the lad, wno was heard to mut*
ter, —
*'i tiiuiight that 1 Wouid trrff
mm out I”
— wtfV ——.
From His Wife’s Head.
A few days since a party of
gentlemeu were together. Guff
man, a joker, stepped up to *
member of the party, and. bold
ing a long hair before _bis eye*,-
said i
“See here,- old felloW,- this looks
suspicious. Where dtd thic !oui£
hair come from P*
“Why. that’s from my Wife’s
head 1”
“Are you sure of it t’
“■Sure of it ? Of course I am.
Y'ou don’t supoose you would
find any other woman’s hair
about me, do you ?”
“No, probably net; but I am
sorry you are so sure it is your
Wife’s hair, lor 1 picked it off the
coat of this gentleman, pointing
to ,-rfriehd near bv.
A Beautiful Story.
Some time since we paused
along u road and saw a young
lamb standing by the side of its
dying mathvr and with seeming
human sympathy was crying oat
its woe. A few days afterwards
we passed the same spot again
and there was a little lamb still
faithfully fighting away tire Vult
ures from the carcass of its moth
er. Alas ! if mankihd Would on
ly be as true to each, what a hap
py world this would be* No
wonder the angles in heaven are
couii*red to beautiful, pure* in
nocent little lambs.
“Why do men grow bald he aid
ed !” asked a teacher of the class
in physiology. One bey sard
that certain diseases tended tb
that result; another declared
that it was extreme old ag. A
little fellow at the end of the
form said, “Teacher, i g tress if
; you had been in our house last
baturday night when -father and
mother had a littie difference of
opinion you’d know for certain!
what makes men baklheKded/’^