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INTERESTING- STORIES.
CABOOSE NUMBER FOUR.
Larry Uallam closed the windows of his
calavose when the first drops of rain fell, and
entered the depot for the purpose of getting
a bite before going np. lie was a young man
of six and twenty, a thorough railroader, and
a favorite with his superiors. It was rumor
ed that lie would su*n leave the road to take
unto himself a wife, but Larry kept his own
counsels eoneering his future actions.
** It's going to rain,” said the restauranteur
to Larry.
*• Big drops are coming down now,*’ replied
the conductor. ** We will have a lonely run
of it.”
Larry ate a moment in silence, and then
s|>oke again.
•‘Any news?*’
*’ N (thing in particular, only thatDirck Wa
terman has been put in jail here. The)’ talk
ed so strongly about lynching him in Xenia,
that the authorities were obliged to remove
him. They lodged him in jail here one day
last week, and he is as docile as a kitten. I
guess lie'll get a longterm, but as for hang
ing—that's out of the question ; a bad man
seldom gets his dues now-a days.”
••Justice seems to sleep.” Larry replied.—
•* But she will awake before long ; then look
out. But our jail is not oyerstrong, I un
derstand.”
••That’s so, but it will hold Dirck Water
man. He is afraid to trust himself at large
in a country where his face is so well
known.”
Larry Hallam finished his late lunch, and
then, with an interchange of good nights, the
men separated.
On the track just without the station stood
the train destined for Pemberton, a town of
importance, thirty-six miles up the road. The
make up comprised six freight cars, not heav
ily loaded, and was the lightest train that Lar
ry had ever been called to run.
‘•We’ve got a feather train to-night.” the
engineer said to him. with a smile. We could
run into Pemberton before the passenger ran
out, but I suppose we'll have to switch as
usual at Peterson’s ?”
“Certainly,” returned Larry. “We have
waited on that switch in the rain before to
night. Mebhe it will clear off.”
Larry sat down in the caboose and fresh
ened the fire ; then he folded his arms and
leaned back against the side of the car.
The speed of the car was gradually increas
ing, and lie could see the lights in many win
dows. when the door opened and a man drip
ping wet, and with a ferocious look walked
in.
The young freight conductor started when
he looked into the blood-shot eyes of the man
who might prove one of the wickedest passen
gers a conductor ever carried. The wet gar
ments worn by the man heightened his ill ap
pearance, and his cleanly-shaven face could
not conceal the shadow of a once black
beard.
Larry thought he might recognize his pas
senger if the beard had remained, and he be
gan to conjecture whom lie might be.
“ Bad night,” the man said, throwing him
self on a cushion opposite Larry.
The voice startled the conductor, and be
trayed to him the fact that he sat face to face
with Dirck Waterman, the man whose diaboli
cal crime had shocked the State. Waterman,
a short time prior to his arrest, had been dis
charged from the service of a well known line
of railway. Exasperated with his deserved
treatment, lie deliberately obstructed the
track one mad October night, and hurled the
train down an embankment into a rocky
gorge. Many people were killed outright by
the catastrophe, others maimed for life.
He was apprehended by the sheriff, and
sent to jail, there to wait his trial. The peo
ple of Xenia determined to take the law in
t heir own hands. They attacked the jail, but
the sheriff and his deputies baflled them by
conveying the prisoner by a secret post to
Piqua. a town in an adjoining county, and
now he had escaped from the county jail.
“It is indeed a bad night. Where are you
going ?”
“To Pemberton. You run very slowly.”
“We arc in no hurry. We switch at Pe
terson's for the down passenger.”
“Couldn’t you get to Pemberton before she
moves out ?”
“Don't know; never tried it.”
“Well, we will try it to night,” said Dirck
Waterman quickly, and the next instant Lar
ry was in his grasp.
The young conductor struggled manfully,
but without avail. The murderer’s strength
was too great for him, and he soon found him
self helpless on the floor of the caboose, and
bound with ropes which he purchased for the
use of the car but the day before.
“I’m going to take you through like light
ning,” said Dirck Waterman, looking down
upon his victim with triumph. “I’ve got
friends in Pemberton, you see, and they’ll be
uncommon glad to look into my phiz again.
“I’m sure you can’t move, and if l didn’t
know that you’re going to marry Annie
Clarke, some day, may I be cursed some if I
wouldn’t, treat you to a bullet. They gave
me this in Piqua—my friends did, and he
thrust his revolver into Larry’s face as he
spoke. “Oh! you see a fellow must be un
common bad to lose all his friends.”
The young conductor said nothing but
looked up into the devilish face of the man
who stood over him.
“I’m going forward to hurry Tom up.” said
W aterman, and with a mock bow of depart
ure the villian left the caboose, closing the
door after him.
The silence that seemed to fall about I.ar
ry was dreadful. He did not bear the rum
ble of the cars, nor the patter of the rain on
the roof and against the windows. The si
lence of death seemed to hang over him. and
he waited for the pistol shot that should slay
Tom Kyle at his post. He knew that the
villain was a thorough engineer, and believed
that he would not hesitate to slay Tom and
take his place on the engine.
Of course he could not see the cunning man
creeping over the sticks of wood on the ten
der nor catch the gleam of the revolver in his
hand.
Tom Kyle was at ins post, and his fireman
dozed on his accustomed seat. The rain had
slacked up a little, and the engineer of the
train had opened the door.
Suddenly he heard a voice that seemed to
come from the tender.
“Faster! Don’t switch at Peterson’s!”
Tom Kyle turned in an instant, and saw
the face that glanced at him from above the
wood. And at the same time he sa’w the re
▼4ver that covered his heart.
“ F want you to obey me,” said Dirck Wa
terman, “I am a dangerous man, and will do
dangerous things. We must get to Pember
ton before Clve passenger train starts out.—
You can do it. Torn Kyle. Now to work at
once. I can see the gauge from here. If
you don’t obey me I’ll drop you in your
tracks, and feed the boiler with your car
cass. Now, let us go faster!”
Tom Kyle was a little pale when he turn
ed from the desperate man. lie doubted his
ability to run into Pemberton before the ten
o’clock passenger train departed. Already
they had traversed a good part of the run, and
the switch was not far off. But the engineer
knew the man who was dealing with him, and
he thought of his young wife far down the
road, lie thought, too. of Larry, and won
dered if Waterman hadn,t slain him in ca
boose No. 4.
The speed of the train visibly increased
until it seemed to fly like an arrow over the
dark road.
On. on, at the rate of a mile a minute, till
die lights of Pemberton become visible. As
the engine rounde l a curve which had hidden
the city from sight, a dark form dropped from
a car lightly upon the tender.
Dick V\ aterman did not see it, so intently
was he watching the engineer, still covered
by his revolver. The man crept forward, and
the light of the stars fell upon an iron rod
that glistened in his hands.
He stopped a few feet behind the rascal and
raised his novel weapon—the poker belong
ing to the caboose’s stove. The next instant
it descended with crashing force upon Wa
terman’s unprotected head, and he fell forward
with a smothered groam and lav at Tom Kyle’s
feet.
“Slack! slack !’’ cried the victor, spring
ing from the tender. “Slack for heaven’s
sake ! The passenger train is moving out.
Don’t you hear her ?”
The engineer did not need the commands,
for his hands were already on the lever, and
when the train stood still, quivering like a
leaf, twenty feet did not lie between her and
the down train loaded with passengers.
Dirck Waterman was found to be quite
dead, and the people said he had met the fate
he richly merited.
Larry had managed to free his hands by
severing the cords by means of a nail in the
floor of the caboose, and his knife had com
pleted his liberty.
Shortly after the adventure he left caboose
No. 4. wedded his sweetheart, and returned
to the road promoted to the conductorship of
a passenger train. To this day he often re
calls to his wife how near she eatne losing
him on the wild night of Dirck Waterman’s
escape from jail.
THE SKELETON HAND.
Yielding to a miserable habit had ruined
me. It had blasted my prospects, destroyed
my business, alienated my friends, and
brought me down to the lowest point of ex
istence. The habit had altogether overcome
me. In vain I struggled against it.
One evening I was sitting in my miserable
home craving for the stimulus that now was
necessary to my life. Rising, I walked to
the cupboard where it was kept. My wife
knew well my intention. She followed me
with her eves.
I went there desperate and careless—only
eager for t he gratification of my appetite.
I reached forth mv hands, tremblingly
seized the bottle, and was about raising it to
my lips.
But at that very moment, just as the bottle
touched my lips, 1 felt a terrible sensation.
It was as though someone had grasped my
throat.
•• Wife !” I cried in a deep, fierce voice.—
“Hag! do you dare?” and turning with
clenched fist, I struck at what I supposed
was my wife. For I thought she was trying
in this violent way, in desperation to keep
me from drink.
But to my surprise. I saw my wife sitting
by the fire-place with her work in her hand.
It could not have been her, evidently.
A terrible feeling passed through me.—
Shudderingly I raised my hand to feel what
it was that was at my throat, or if there
anything there at all, which seemed to be
grasping me so tightly.
Horrors of horrors !
As I raised my hand, I felt the unmistak
able outlines of a bony thumb and bony fin
gers pressed against ray flesh. It was a
skeleton hand that clutched me by the throat.
Mv hand fell down powerless by my side,
the bottle crashed on the floor. My children
awoke at the noise, and wife and children
stared at me with white faces.
There I, trembling in every limb, stood
transfixed with horror, the awful feeling of
the supernatural now fully possessing me.—
Unable to speak', I gasped with fear. I drew
away my body but my head was still held by
the same dread and invisible power. I could
not. move that.
But at last I felt the grasp relax.
I staggered back, the grasp ceased altogeth
er, and I drew off to another corner of the
room, endeavoring to go as far as possible
from where this mysterious thing had seized
me.
Soon my wife and children turned away,
the former to work, (lie latter to sleep.
And. now, gradually my craving returned.
Yet. how couhl I satisfy it? My bottle was
broken.
I took my hat, fumbled in my pockets and
found a few cents, and taking an old bottle
that lay in a corner, I went forth in the dark
ness.
It was not without some feeling of trepida
tion that I entered the dark passage-way.—
Fear, lest the same thing or horror might re
turn again, agitated me. But. I passed on
unharmed and reached mv old resort, where
l laid my bottle on the counter. The clerk
soon filled it. With an irresistible impulse
I clutched the bottle and rushed forth to drink
the liquor.
1 hurried oil' for a little distance and came
to the head of a wharf. Here, unable to re
sist mv craving any longer, 1 pulled out the
cork so as to drink.
Scarcely had the bottle touched my lips
when I again experienced that terrible feel
ing.
My throat was seized, this time more vio
lently, more fiercely, as if bv someone who
had already warned me, and was enraged at
having to repeat the warning. A thrill of
horror again shot through me. Again the
bottle fell from my trembling hands and was
crushed to fragments upon the stone pave
ment.
Again T raised my hands to my throat,
though in deadly fear; hut the motion was
mechanical —a natural and involuntary effort
to tear away the thing that had seized my
throat —to free myself from the pain and hor
ror of that mysterious grasp. Again I felt
there under my touch, plainly and unmistak
ably, the long, hard, bony hand, which I had
felt before. One touch was enough. My
hands fell down. I tried to shriek, but in
vain. I gasped for breath, and thought that
I would be suffocated.
But at length the grasp slowly and unwil
lingly relaxed. I breathed more freely'. At
length the touch was no longer felt.
I paced the streets for a long time. At
first every’ vestige of mv appetite had been
driven away by the horror of that moment.
As time passed it began to return. Once
more I felt the craving. True, the fear of
another attack was strong, and for a long time
deterred me ; but at last the craving grew too
strong for the fear.
Nerving myself up to a desperate piteh of
resolution, I rushed back to the shop where 1
had last purchased the liquor.
“See here!” I cried; “I’m crazy for a
drink ; I broke that bottle ! Give me a glass,
for God's sake—only one glass !”
Something in my face seemed to excite the
man’s commiseration. He poured out a glass
for me in silence.
With trembling eagerness 1 reached out my
hand to seize it. With trembling hand I rais
ed it toward ray lips. The grateful fumes
already entered my nostrils. My lips already
touched the edge of the glass.
Suddenly rav throat was seized with a tre
mendous grasp.
It was as though the power which was tor
menting me had become enraged by my re
peated acts of opposition, and wished now
by this final act to reduce me to subjection
forever.
This time the grasp was terrible, it was
fiercer than ever, quick, impetuous.
In that dread grasp my breath ceased.
T struggled. Mv senses reeled. I raised
my hands in despair. I felt again the bony
fingers, I moved my hand along bony arms.
In my madness 1 struggled. I struck out
my fists wildly. They struck against what
seemed like bony ribs.
At last all senses left me.
When I revived I found myself lying on a
rude bench in the bar.
I rose to my feet and tried to get. out. The
noise that T made awoke someone inside,
lie called out to me.
“ Hallo there ! arc yon off?”
“ Yes,” I said.
“ Wait, I'll let you out.”
lie appeared in a short time.
“ Y'on had a bad turn,” said he, not unkind
ly. “You’d better take care of yourself, and
not be out at night.”
1 thanked him and left.
When I reached home my wife waked up
and looked fearfully at me. Amazement
came over her face as she saw that I was so
ber. I kissed her and sat down in silence.
She looked at me in wonder. Tears fell
from her eyes. She said nothing but I saw
she was praying.
As soon as the shops were opened I went
out and managed to procure some food
which 1 brought to the room. I then left to
go to my employment. Through the day I
felt an incessant craving, but my horror was
so great that I would far rather have cut my
throat than risked having that hand there
again.
My wife said nothing. I saw. however, by
her soft eyes, the gentle joy of her face, and
the sweet. loving smile with which she wel
comed me home, how deeply this change in
me had affected her.
Thus forced to be sober, my circumstances
improved. There was no longer any danger
of want. Comfort came, and peace, and pure
domestic joy.
Remorse for the sufferings which I had caus
ed to mv sweet wife made me more eager to
amend for the past, that so I might efface
bitter memories from her mind. The revul
sion of feeling was so great that she forgot
that I had ever been unkind. 1 made no
parade of reform. 1 made no promises and
no vow. Nor did she ever allude to the
change. Sim showed her joy in her face and
manner. She accepted the change when it
came and rejoiced in it.
1 still felt an anxious desire to get at the
bottom of this mystery, and once I told the
whole story to my medical man.
He was not at all surprised.
Doctors never are. Nor are doctors ever
at a loss to account for anything.
“ Pooh,” said he indifferently. “That is
common enough. It’s nuniin a potu. The
brain, you know, becomes congested, and
von see and feel devils and skeletons.—
Cases like yours arc common enough.”
To me however, my case seemed very un
common. but, whether it be or not, my ease
lias resulted in my salvation. And never
will I cease, even amidst my horror, to be
grateful to that Power which came down
clothed in terror to snatch me from ruin with
that Skvfetdn I fund.
“ Not if it was My Boy!”
Some years ago, the late Horace Mann, the
eminent educator, delivered an address at
the opening of some reformatory institution
for boys, during which he remarked that if
only one hoy was saved from ruin, it would
pay for all the cost, and care, and labor of
establishing such an institution as that.—
After the exercises had closed, in private con
versation, a gentleman rallied Mr. Mann
upon his statement, and said to him :
“Did you not color that a little, when you
said that all that expense and labor would
be amply repaid if it only saved one boy !”
“Not if it was ray boy,” was the solemn
and convincing reply.
Ah ! there is a wonderful value about “My
bov, M Other boys may be rude and rough ;
other boys may be reckless and wild ; other
boys may seem to require more pains and
labor than they ever will repay; other hoys
may be left to drift uncarcd for to the ruin
which is so near at hand; but “Mv boy”—
it were worth the toil of a lifetime and the
lavish wealth of a world to save him from
temporal and eternal ruin. We would go the
world round to save him from peril, and would
bless every hand that was stretched out to
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one whom some mother called “My’ boy’.”—
Every lost woman, sunken in the depths of
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To-day somebody’s son is a hungry outcast,
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To-day somebody’s daughter is a weary, help
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paths that lead to death. Shall we shrink
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Not if it is “My boy not if we have the
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