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DROLLERIES OF DONEGAL
A SERIES OF HUSH FOLK STORIES#
By Sou in ns Hacmmios.
AutTior of "Through the Turf Smoke,”
"The Leadin’ Road to Donegal”
CHAPTER J.
Copyrighted by the S. S. McClure Cos.,
im.
The \1 venture* of Hilly He*.
Once on a lime there was a king and
queen, and they had one son, Billy, and
the Quenn gave Billy a hull that he was
very fond of, and it was just as fond
of iitm. After some time the Queen died,
and she put as her last request on the
King that he would nevt-r part Billy and
the bull, and the King promised that, come
what might, come what may. he would
Dot. After the Queen died the King mar
ried again, and the new queen didn’t take
to Billy Beg, and no more did she like
the bull, seeing himself and Billy so thick.
But she couldn't get th* King on no ac
count to part Blily and th* bull, so she
consulted with a hen-wife what they could
do as regards separating Billy and the
bull. "What will you give n.” says th*
hen-wife, "and I’ll very soon part them?”
"Whatever you ask,” says the Queen.
"Well and good, then'’ sa\s the hen-wife,
"you are to take to your b l. making pre
tend that you are bad with a complaint,
erd I’ll do the m ~t of it.”
And, well and good, to h*r l**d she took,
and none of the doctors could do any
thing for h*-r. or make out what was her
complaint. So the Queen asked for the
lhen-wife to be sent for. And sent for she
was, and when she came in and examined
the Queen, she said there was one thing,
and only one, could cure her The King
asked what that was, nnd tlx hen-wife
said It was three mouthfuls of the blood
of Billy Beg's bull. But the King would
on no account hear of this, and tlx next
clay the Qtxen was worse, and tlx third
day she was worse still,and told the King
she was dying, and he’d have her death
on his he id. So sooner than this the King
had to consent to Billy Beg's bull being
kiTed.
When Billy heard this he got very down
In the heart entirely, and he went doi
therin abort, and the bull saw him, and
asked him what was wrong with him that
he was >o mournful, so Billy told the
hull what was wrong with him. and the
hull told him to never mind, but keep
tip his heart, tlx- Queen would never taste
a drop of hi> blood. The next day then
the bull was to be killed, and th< Queen
got up an<l went out to have the delight
of seeing his death. When the bull was
led up to b- killed, says he to Billy, "Jump
up on mv bark till we see what kind of
a horseman you are.”
Up Billy jumped on his bark, and with
that the bull leapt nine mile high, nine
mile deep and nine mile broad, and
came down with Billy sticking between
his horns. Hundreds were looking on
dazed nt the sight, and through them the
bull rushed, and over the top of the Queen,
killing her dead, and away he galloped
where you wouldn’t know day by night,
or night by day. over high hills, low hills,
cheep walks aixl bullock traces, the Cove
of Cork, and obi Tom Fox with his bugle
horn.
When at last they stopped. "Now
then," says the bull to Billy, "you an l 1
must undergo great scenery, Billy. "Put
your hand." says the bull. In my left
ear, and you’ll get a napkin, that, when
you spread it out, will be covered with
eating and drinking of all sorts, tit for
the King himself." Billy did this, and
then ho spread out th- napkin, and ate
and drank to his heart’s content, and he
rolled up the napkin and put it back in
the bull’s ear again. "Then." says the
bull, "now put your hand into my right
ear and you’ll find a bit of a stick; if
you wind it over your hand three times
It will be turned into a sword and give
you the strength of a thousand men lye
sides your own. and when you have no
more need of It as a sword it will change
.hack into a prick again." Billy did all
this. the bull: "At 12 o’clock
the morrow I’ll have to meet and tight
a great bull."
Billy then got up again on the bull’s
back, and the bud started off and away
where you wouldn’t know day by night,
or night bv day over high hills, low hills.
wheep walks and bullock traces, the Cove
of Cork, and old Tom Fox with his bugle
horn. There he met another bull, and
loth of them fought, and the like of their
fight was never seen before or since. They
knocked the soft ground into hard, and the
hard into soft, the soft into spring wells,
end spring wells into rocks, and the rocks
into high hills. They fought long. and
Billy Beg’s bull killed the other, and drank
his blood. Then Billy took the napkin
out of his ear again and spread it out and
aie a hearty good dinner.
Then says the bud to Billy, says he:
•’At 12 o’clock to-morrow, I’m to meet
the bull’s brother that 1 killed to-day. and
we ll have a hard tight.” Billy got pn the
hull’s back again, and the bull started off
nnd away where you wouldn’t known day
by night, or night by day, over high bids,
low hills, sheep walks and bullock tr••*,
the Cove of Cork, nnd old Tom Fox with
his bugle horn. There he met the bull’s
brother that he killed the day Ufore. and
they set to. and they fought, and the like
of the light was never seen before or
nince. They knocked the soft ground in
to hard, the hard into soft, the soft into
spring wells, the spring wells into rocks,
and ihe rocks into high hills. They fought
long, and at last Billy's bull kilted, the
other and drank his blood. And then Billy
took out the napkin out of the bull’s ear
again and spread it ouj and eat another
hearty dinner.
Then says the bull Jo Billy, says he:
"The morrow at 12 o’clcok the brother of
the two bulls I killed—he's a mighty great
bull entirely, the strongest of them all;
he’s ca.led the Black Bull etf the Forest,
end he’ll be too able for me. When I'm
bead." says the bull, "you. Billy, will take
with you the napkin, and you'll never be
hungry; and the stick, and you’ll be aide
to overcome everything that comes in your
way: and take out your knife and cut a
strip ot hide off my back and another strip
off my belly and make a belt of them, and
ns long as you wear them you cannot be
killed.”
Billy was very sorry to hear this, but
he got up on the bud’s back again, and
they started and away where you
wouldn’t know day by night or night by
day, ov< r high h 11s. low hills, sheep walks
and bullock truces, the Cove of Cork and
old Tom Fox with his angle horn. And
sure enough at 12 o'clock the next doy
they met the great Black Bu i of the For
est. and both of the bulls to it and com
menced to tight, and the like of the fight
was never seen before or since; they
knocked ‘he soft ground into hard ground
and the hard ground Into soft and the sofr
Uto spring wel.s. the spring wells into
rocks, and the rocks into high hills. And
they fought long, but at length the Black
Bull of the Forest killed Billy Beg’s bud
nnd drank his blood. Billy Beg was so
vexed at this thin for two days he sat
over :h* ou.l, neither eating nor drinking
but crying sa.t tears all the time.
Then he got up, and he spread out the
fo“r k ho' w! ‘I I*' 1 *' a . very hearty dinner,
for h- w... -very hungry with his lon*
I*<M, and after that li- cut a atrip of the
Mh. o. u„ .lull's l*fk. an., another off
thi be v. anti made a be, f., r himself
and lak.uß it and the bit of at ,k
, • • i at la. i ho catne to a great steii
tleman r place Biliv i ,u f , Ke ' l
Ilf he lYiii'i „* , lhe ntlemn
couM Kite him employment and the
gentleman said he wanted Ju & t such a i.ov
like him for herding cattle. Billy asked
what cattle would he have to herd, nnd
what wages would he get. The gentle
man said he had three goats, three cows,
three horses and three asses -that he fed
in on orchard, and that no boy who ever
went with them ever arne Uck alive,
for there were three brothers, giants, that
earn*- to milk the cows itnd he goats every
day aixl kJl.ed the boy that was herding;
so if Billy liked io try, they wouldn’t fix
the wages till they’d see if he would come
back alive.
"Agreed, then.” said Billy. the next
morning he got up and drove out the three
goats, the three cows. Hie thro* horses
and the thr*n* asses to the* orchard and
commence 1 no loed them. About the mid
dle of the da\* Billy heard three terrilWe
roars that sho*k the apples off the bushes,
shook the hen* on the cows and made the
hair stand ui> on Billy’s head, and in
comes a frightful big giant with three
heads, and began to threaten Billy.
"You’re too frig.” says the giant, "for
on* bite aixl two sma.l for two. What
will I do with you?”
"I'll light you,” says Billy, says he
stepping out to hjm and swinging a bit of
stick three times over his head, when t
changed into a sword and gave him the
strength of a thousand men besides his
own. The giant laughed at the s i?M of
him, and sa*. he. "William, how will I
kill you? Will it be u awing by the back,
n cut of the sword, or a square round of
boxing?”
"With a swing by the bock.” says Billy,
• If you can." <so they both laid holds, and
Billy lifted the .giant clean off the ground,
and fetching him down again, sunk him
In it up to his armpits.
"O. have mercy,” says the giant. Hut
Billy, taking his sword, killed the giant
and cut out his tongue, it was evening
by this time, so BW*,y drove home the three
goats, thrte cows, three horses and three
askes, and all the vessels in tin* house
wasn’t able to hold ad the milk the cows
gave that night.
"Well," says the gentleman, "this* beats
me. for I never saw any one coming back
alive out of there before, nor th- cows
with a drop of milk. Did you see anything
in ihe orchard?” says he. Nothing worse
nor myself.’ soys Billy. "What about my
wages now?” says Billy.
"Wefi,” says the gentleman, "you’ll
hardly come, olive out of there to-morrow.
So we’ll wait tin after that.”
Next morning his master told Billy that
something must have happened one of the
giants, for he used to hear the cries of
three every night, but last flight lie only
heard two crying.
"I don’t know,” says Billy, "anything
about them.”
That morning after he got Ids breakfast
Billy drove the three goats, three cows,
three hor -•- and thr<e as ec into th< or
chard again, and began to feed them.
About 12 o’clock he heard three terrible
roars that shook the apples off ihe bushes,
the horns on the cows and m;*de the hair
stand up on Billy’s head, and In comes
n frightful big giant, with six beads, and
he told Billy he had killed his brother yes
terday, but he would make him pay for
if the day. "You’re too big.” says tie,
“for one bite, and too small for two, and
what will I do with you?”
"I’ll tight you," says Billy, swinging hit*
stick three times over his head, and turn
ing it into a sword, and giving him the
strength of a thousand men. besides his
own.
The giant laughed at him. nnd says he,
"How will I kill you—with a swing by
the back, a cut of the sword, or a square
round of lioxing?”
"With a swing by ihe back," says Biily,
"if you can."
So the both of them laid holds, and Billy
lifted the giant clean off the ground, and
fetching him down again, sunk him in it
lip to the arm pits. "O, spare my life,”
says the giant. But Billy taking up hia
sword. kih*d him and cut out Ids tongues.
It was evening by this time, and Billy
drove home his three goats, three cows,
three horses and three asses, ;uxl what
milk the cows gave that night overflowed
all the vessels In the house, and, running
out, turned a rusty mill that hadn’t been
turned lie fore for thirty years. If the
me*tor was surprised seeing Billy coming
back the night before, he was <en times
more surprised now.
"Did you see anything in the orchard the
day?” says the gentleman.
"Nothing worse nor myself." says Billy.
"What about my wages now.” says Billy.
"Well, never mind about your wages.”
says the gentleman, "till the morrow, for
1 think you’ll hardly come back olive
again.” says he.
Well and good, Billy went to bed. and
the gentleman went to his bed, and when
the gentleman rose in the morning says he
to Billy, "I don’t known what’s* wrong
with two of the giants; I only heard one
crying last night?”
"1 don’t know.” says Billy, "they must
bo sick or something.”
Well, when Biily got his breakfast that
day again, he set out to the orchard, driv
ing before him the three goats, three
cows, three herses and three asses, and
sure enough about the middle of the day
he hears three terrible roars again, and
in conies another giant, this one with
twelve heads on him. and if the other two
were frightful, surely this one was ten
times more so.
"You vidian, you," says he to Billy, "you
killed my two brothers, and I’ll have my
revenge on you now. Prepare till 1 kill
you,” says hr; "you’re too big for one
bite, too small for two. What will 1 do
with you?”
"I’ll tight you." says Billy, shaping out
and winding the bit of stick throe limps
over his head. The giant 'laughed heart- j
fly at the size of him. and says he:
"What way do you prefer being killed? !
Is It with a swing by the back, a cut of I
the sword or a square round of boxing?” I
"A swing of the back.” says Billy. So I
both of them again laid holds, and my
brave Billy lifts the giant clean off the
ground, and. fetching him down again,
sunk him down to his armpits in it.
"O, have mercy! Spare my life!” says
the giant. But Billy took his sword, nnd,
killing him, cut out his tongues. That
evening he drove home his the< goats,
three cows, three horses and three a.sso->,
and the mi!k of the cows had to be turned
Into a valley, where it made n lough three
miles long and three miles broad, and that
lough has been filled With salmon nnd
white trout ever since. The gentleman
wondered now more than ever to see Billy
back the third day alive.
"DM you see nothing in the orchard to
day. Billy?” says he.
"No, nothing worse nor myself.” sayk
Billy.
"Well, that beats me," says the gentle
man.
"What about my wages, now," says
Billy.
"Well, you’re a good mindful boy that
T couldn’t easy do without,” says the gen
tleman. "and 11 give you any wages you
ask for the future.”
The next morning says the gentleman
to Billy: "I heard none of the giants cry
ing last night, however U comes. 1 don’t
kr.ow what has happened p> tlx in.”
"1 don’t know." says Billy; "thy must
be sick or something.”
"Now. Hilly." says the gentleman, '‘you
must iook after the cattle the day again
white 1 go see the fight."
"What fight?" said Billy.
"Why,” says the gentleman, "it’s the
King’s daughter s going to be devoured
by a fiery dragon. If the greatest fighter
in the land, that they have been feeding
specially for the last three weeks, isn’t
able to kid th* dragon first. And if he's
able to kdi the dragon, the King is to give
him the daughter in marriage.
• That will Ik? fine." says Billy. Billy
drove ou: his three goats, throe cows,
three horses nnd three asst" to the orchard
that day again. aixl the like of all that
passed that day to sec the fight with the
man and the fiery dragon Billy never wit
nessed before. They went in coaches and
carriages, on horses and jackasses, riding
en.i mulleins and crawUn* and creeping:.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JULY 10,1809.
"My tight little fellow." coys a man
that was passing to Billy, "why don’t
you come to see the great fight?”
I won’t go,” says Billy. But when
Billy found them all gone he saddled and
bridled the best black horse his master
had, and put on the best suit of clothes he
could get in his master’s house and rode
off to the fight after the real. When Billy
went there he saw the King’s daughter
with the whole court about her on a plat
form before the castle, and he thought he
never saw anything half as beautiful, anl
the great warrior that was to fight the
dragon was walking up and down on the
lawn before her. with a man carrying his
sword, and every one in the whole coun
try gathered there looking ot him. But
when the fiery dragon came up with
twelve heads on him. and every mouth of
him spitting fire, and let twelve roars
out of him, the warrior ran away nnd hid
himself up to the neck in a well of water,
and all they could do they couldn’t get
him to face the dragon. Then the King’s
daughter asked If there was no one there
to save her from the dragon and get her
marriage. But no one stirred.
When Billy saw this he tied the belt of
the bull’s hide around him. swung his
stock over his head and wont in. and after
a terrible fight, killed the dragon. Every
one then gathered about to find who the
stranger was. Billy jumped on his horse
and darted away sooner than let them
know; but just ns he was getting away
the King’s daughter pulled the shoe off
his foot. When the dragon was killed the
warrior that had hid In the well of water
came out. and cutting the heads off the
dragon he brought them to the King, and
said that it was he who killed the dragon,
*n disguise; and he claimed the King’s
daughter. Bur she tried the shoe on him
and found it didn’t fit him; so she said it
wasn i him, and that she would marry no
one only the man the shoe fitted.
Wl * n Billy got home he changi and ih 3
clothes again, and had the horse in the
stable, and the cattle all in before his mas
ter came. When the master came he be
gan telling Billy about the wonderful day
they had entirely, and about the warrior
hiding in the well of water, and about the
grand stranger that came down out of the
sky in a cloud of a black horse, and killed
the fiery dragon, and then vanished in a
cloud again. "And. now.” says he, "Billy, j
wasn't that wonderful?"
"It was. indeed," says Billy, "very won
derful entirely.”
After that it was given out over the
country that all the people were to come
to tno king's castle on a certain day. till
the king's daughters would try the shoe on
them, and whoever it fitted she was to
marry. When the day arrived Billy was
in the orchard with the three goats, three
cows, three horses and three asses, as us
ual, and the like of all the crowds that
passed thru day going to the king’s cas
tle to get the shoe tried on. he never saw
before. They went in coaches and car
riages. on horses and jackasses, riding
nnd walking, and crawling and creeping.
They all asked Billy was not lit* going to
the king's castle, but Billy said he
Wouldn’t go.
At last, when all the others had gone,
there passed by an old man with a very
scarecrow suit of rags on him, and Billy
stopped him and asked him what boot
would he take and swap clothes with him.
"Just take care of yourself, now. says
the old man, and don't be playing off your
jokes on my clothes, or maybe I’d make
you feel the weight of this stick.
But Billy soon let him see it was in
earnest he was, and both of them swapped
suits. Billy giving the old man boot. Then
off to the castle started Billy, with the
suit of rags on his back and an old stick
in his hand, and when he came there he
found all in great commotion trying on
the shoe, and some of them cutting down
their feet trying to get it to fit. But it
was all of no use. the shoe could be got
to tit notx of them at all and the King's
daughter was going to give up in despair
when the oil, ragged looking man, which
was Billy, elbowed his way through them,
and says he: "Let me try it on; maybe it
would fit me."
But the people, when they saw him,
all began to laugh at the sight of him, and
"Go along out of that, you examine you,"
says they, shoving and pushing him back.
Bur the King’s daughter saw him, and
called on them by all manner of rheans
to let him come up and try on the shoe.
So Billy went up, and all the people looked
on, breaking their hearts laughing at the
conceit of it. But what wou?d you have of
it but. to the dumbfounding of them all.
the shoe lilted Billy as nice as if It was
made on his foot for a last. So the King’s
daughter claimed Billy as her husband.
He then confessed that It was he that
killed the fiery dragon; and when the King
had him dressed up in a silk and satin
suit, with plenty of gold and silver or
naments, everyone gave in that his like
they never saw before. He was then mar
ried to the King s daughter, and the wed
ding lasted nine days, nine hours nine min
ifies nine ha?f-minutes and nine quarter
minutes. and they lived happily and well
from that day to this. I got brogues of
broughan and breeches of glass, a bit of
pie for telkng a lie, and then I came
slithering home.
JOE HALLIDArS COURTSHIP.
ll> lIEItKEItT K. HAMBLEN.
(Copyright, 1S1K). by Herbert E. Hamblen.)
A strapping,*- square-shouldered, brown
eyed young fellow, with traces of coal dust
in his lashes, rolled-up overalls under his
arm and a railroad dinner-pail in his
hand, leaning against a gate. On the
other side a blue-eyed girl with sunny
hair and apple-red cheeks.
Joe Holliday, Just in with the night
freight, surrendered to temptation. He
dropped his overalls and dinner pail, reach
ed across, anil drawing the smiling face to
his, pressed his lips to the crumpel twin
rose leaves.
With Innocent fearlessness the blue eyes
looked Into the brown ones, while their
.owner drank in the pleasant greeting of
her lover. Suddenly her gaze was deflect
ed over Ids shoulder, the happy look
was displaced by one of terror, and with
the cry: "O, here comes papa!” she lied
toward the house.
Old Dave Spellman had forgotten his
pipe, for once—a brierwood. burned to the
water's edge, and strong enough to jack
up a derailed mogul—and had come back
after it He caught a glimpse of a blue
gingham skirl as it whipped around the
rose hush, and then his surly gaze fell up
on Joe.
Here wns another one of ’em.
Joe was conscious of a guilty blush, but
I lie grw ted Annie’s father with a diplo
; rnatic. "Good morning, Dave!”
"W hat are you hanging’ round here
for?” growled Dave. "Git along about yer
business; 1 don’t want ye here! Tome clear
out!” h<’ shouted, os Joe drew himself up
with flushed cheeks and eyes snapping,
and declined to move.
"Who do you think you're talking to?”
asked Joe. angrily, his diplomacy scattered
to the four winds by old Dave's onslaught.
’ I’m talkin' to you. I won’t hev ye run
nin' after my gal. These is my premises;
git out!”
"This s the public highway, an’ I’ll got
out when 1 get good an’ ready. Yon
ought to lie ashamed to talk shout your
daughter like that; I always knew you
was a/i old ” But Dave had kicked <h*
gate ojien mid was rushing toward the
house, calling, "Bendigo!”
A moment .ater Joe heard an urgent
"Hick ’itn. boy!” followed by a rushing,
growling, gravel-scattering within th?
"premises.” which told him that Dave had
set the dog on him. But Joe wasn't
one of the slow sort, who court the dough
itr of ua irascible old railroader, with-
Florida Central &
Peninsular R. R.
Central or 90th Meridian Time.
TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE JUNE H, 1599.
All trains daily except 40, daily except Sunday.
NORTH AND EAST. ' NORTH AND NORTHWEST.
731 136 M lO j I 33. I3s
JjV Savannah .......... 12 35pjli59p' 6 OOp Lv Savannah 3 fi7p,ll o^P
Ar Fairfax 2 15p' Is*aj9 33p Ar Everett 5 lOp
Ar Denmark 3 Uop 2 42aTO 50p Ar Macon 2 45a
Ar Augusta i j* 4op 6 55a Ar Atlanta 5 o a l
Ar Columbia 4 38p, 4 36a Ar Chattanooga I 9 30aI
Ar Asheville ii i 40p Ar Lexington | 5 OOp; 5 00a
Ar Columbia 4 3Sp 4 3Ga; Ar Cincinnati ~| 7 30p| 7 45a
Ar Charlotte 8 40p, 9 15a Ar Louisville j 7 35p 7 55a
Ar Danville 12 36aj 1 30pj Ar Chicago ! 7 15a; 5 55p
Ar Richmond ; <ji)a 6 25p Ar Detroit ! 6 15aj 4 OOp
Ar Lynchburg | 2 45a 325 pi Ar Cleveland i 6 45aj 2 55p
Ar Charlottesville 4 ,Vh 5 28pj Ar Indianapolis ;11 05p|ll 40a
Ar Washington Ar Columbus •[ 1 3fta;ll 20a
Ar £ and i-u.m da Taints.
Ar New York j 2 03p 0 23a 1 1 33
Ar Boston 9 00p| 3 . . Lv Savannah 5 OSaj 307 p
n t “ *£ fZ
J 35 .Yr Brunswick 7 4ca 6 05p
Lv Savannah 508a Ar Fernandina 3oa 7 40p
Lv Jacksonville t 9 Coa Ar Jacksonville 9 00a 7 40p
Ar Lake Cily |n 28a Ar Si. Augustine |lO Sh a
Ar Live Oak 113 J8 P j A:- Waldo I n 25a 10
Ar Manison .* i 1 it*p Ar Gainesville | J 2 Olnj
Ar Monticeilo i 320 pAr Cedar Key j 7 05p
Ar Tallahassee 3 3>p Ar Ocala I 1 4 °P 1 ISa
Ar Quincy j 4 39p Ar Wildwood j 2 32p| 5 40a
Ar River Junction [ 5 2op Ar Leesburg | 3 10p| 4 30a
Ar Pensacola m OGp Ar Orlando I 5 tX)p| 8 20a
Ar Mobile 1 3 05a Ar Plant City ! 4 50p 5 2Sa
Ar Nrw Orleans 7 40a Ar Tampa I 5 40p( 6 30a
Trains arrive at Sav 1 ih from North and East—No. 35, sa. m.; No. 33, 2:57 p.
m. From Northwest—No. 35. 5 a. m. From Florida points, Brunswick and Da
rien—No. 34, 12:27 p. m.; No. 36, 11:50 p. m. No. 39, from Denmark and local points,
II: 6 a. m.
Pullman buffet sleepers Jacksonville .and New Orleans on trains 35 and 36, also
on same trains Jacksonville and Cincinnati via Ahevtlle without change.
Pullman buffet vestibuled sleepers between Tampa and New York on trains 33
and 34, going through from Charlotte as the southwestern vestibuled limited train.
Pullman sleeper Charlotte and Richmond, also Greensboro and Norfolk.
For full Information apply to
\VM. BUTLER, JR., T. P. A. | Bull and Bryan streets, opposite Pulaski
S. D. BOYLSTON, C. T. A . j and Screven Hotels.
D. C. ALLEN. C. T. A., Bull an l Liberty s opposite De Soto Hotel.
W. R. McINTYRE, D. T. A.. West Broad and Liberty streets.
A. O. MACDONELL. G. P A . L. A. SH IBM AN. A. O. P. A.. Jacksonville.
Trains leave from Union Depot, corner West Broad and Liberty streets.
out first getting solid with the dog. As
popular report credited Bendigo with a
collection of samples from the fair An
nie’s would-be admirers, Joe had xbcen
forewarned. When Bendigo came tear
ing through -the gate, his wrinkled muzzle,
gleaming fangs and erect mane, eloquent
of his Intentions, he found nobody there
but his very good friend, Joe Haljiday.
Joe soothed his disappointment with scraps
from his dinner paid, parted the great head
affectionately and resumed his homeward
course—vowing to get square with Old
Dave, if be had io steal Annie bodily.
In *he meantime, poor Annie went about
her work with drooping head, her long
lashes daintily brushing her flushed
cheeks, accepting in silence her fathers
caustic vituperations. "So that’s what
nil that ex try whistlin’s fer, down here at
the yard block, hey? Thought ’(was for
his mother to have his breakfast ready,’*
grunted Dave, who knew a thing or two
himself.
It now became impossible for the lovers
to meet, except, when Joe came in on
Dave’s day out; but when that combina
tion occurred, a strain was put upon the
gate hinges, and the blue eyes and the
brown ones drank in each other’s mean
ing, while savage Bendigo lay contented
ly at their feet.
Joe pleaded his cause with the eloquence
of desperation; there were 110 little broth
ers or sisters to bo cared for; nobody ar all
but Old Dave. And he pictured in grow
ing colors ihe contrast between this and
the life she would lead as his wife in the
handsome cottage juct being completed,
near the church.
But her unvarying answer, delivered in
that monotonous tone which sounded to
Joe like the wail of utter hopelessness,
was: "I can’t: O. Joe, I can’t! Not while
father lives. Who but me could get along
with him? Please don’t ask me, dear.”
And so two fond hearts mourned.
Joe proposed tack-Tlng the old man him
self, boldly demanding his daughter’s
hand; but Annie begged him not to im
peril what little comfort she had in life.
To his suggestion that she might be able
to talk her father over, she rep.led that
she had never known him to recede from a
position he bad cnce taken. So they were
obliged to content themselves with such
clandestine meetings ns they could get,
though they found them far from satisfac
tory.
Old Dave had run one side of the steam
boat express for years, % and he tvranized
over his partner, easy-going Harry Joyce,
ns he did over everybody else. Dave owned
the engine, and no disputing that. In the
her; there was no disputing that. In the
b'.g blizzard of ’BB. poor Harry stayed with
her In a snowdrift for thirty-six hours,
and want home and died of pneumonia a
w r eek later.
Everybody said it wns a happy re
lease.
John HaTUday. being the senior freight
engineer, was promoted to the vacancy.
Here was a combination w'th a vengeance!
Joe would much have prefer* <1 mat i< had
been somebody else’s turn for a passenger
train. Annie was thrown info a state of
mind, ami nil hands on the road kept the r
ears metaphorically inclined for the explo
sion. Dave said nothing, and nobody had
the temerity to ask his opinion.
There was one enormous gain, anyway;
Joe and Dave were never at home on the
same day; consequently the proverbially
rocky rood of true love Immediately as
sumed a smoothness most delightful. With
Dave 130 miles up the road, the young
couple felt safe in deserting the gate in
favor of the parlor.
The steamboat train was always ’ate
On this end. the steamers delayed it. any
where from trn to thirty minutes, and, of
course, lots of things can happen to lay
out a fast east bound train between Chicago
and tide water. Dave had always oppos
ed tearing the engine to pieces and burning
coal to make up an extra five minutes. Sa
poor Harvey—for the sake of peac*—ha 1
always run just as Dave told him to. But
Joe was ambitious; oil-foggy notions has
no charms for him. Ho began making
changes at once. He keyed her up nil
round, took up lost motion ail over her,
started up the feqd on the oil cups, crawl
ed into the front end and did things to the
diaphragm and nozzle, and ewedged open
the meshes of the spark netting to let her
breathe. He got the valves reset. . by
promising to stand between the round
house foreman and cranky Dave. Ho fa
miliarized himself with the mastered her
pot vices, spread the light to the conduc
tors. enthused the fireman, and went for
anew record.
Joe said nothing to Annie of the new
methods he was inaugurating, but hor fa
ther became w. ll nigh unbearable; so
law of compilation more than evened
matters up.
Dave snorted about in futile rage for a
week. He told his trouble* to no one;
would hardly admit their existence him
self. It was incomprehensible that “a kid
just off of freight” should presum* to maul
about and overhaul his engine. But there
was no lgj-up to the desecration, and at
last It becaim unbearable; so down he
camo one morning before Joe go* away.
Stepping up to him with (he air of a man
who was bound to do or die. he said:
"Say. young man. if you can’t gif a Tong
with this engine the way she Is, you beb
ter look for another jab; I’m gittln* about
sick o' this monkey business. 1 run ’*:t
quite a spell ’fore you got ’round, air
she alius made out to get thar with ’em.’*
Joe would have Ikied to conciliate An
nie's father, but he knew the utter futility
Central of Georgia Railway.
Schedules Effective June 20, 1899.
901 ft Meridian Time.
—DEPARTUHES
hv. Savannah—
Pally for .Macon and Atlanta... 8:45 A.M.
Pally ex. Sunday for Augusta.. 8:45 A. M.
Sunday* only for Augusta t>:3op. M.
Pally for Augusta, Macon, At
lanta. Athens, Columbus and
Birmingham 9:00 P M
Daily ex. Sunday for Dover.... 6:00 P.M
Daily ex. Sunday for Guyton.... 2:00 P. M.
—ARRIVALS—
Ar. Savannah—
Pni!\ from Macon and Atlanta.. S:onp. M.
pally ex. Sunday from Augusta. 6:00 P. M.
Sunday only from Augusta 10:25 A.M.
Daily from Augusta. Macon, At
lanta. Athens, Columbus and
Birmingham 6:00 A. M.
Pally ex. Sunday from Dover.. 7:48A.M.
Daily ex. Sunday from Guyton.. 4:50 P. M.
BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND TYBEE.'
75th meridian of Savannah city time.
"WEEK DAYS—Leave Savannah, 6:20 a
m.. 10:05 a. m., 3:35 p, m., 5:25 p. tn., 6:50 p
m., 8:35 p. m. Returning, leave Tybee 6:00
a. m., 8:00 a. m.. 11;10 a. m., 5:15 p. m. 7:40
p. m., 10:10 p. m.
Sundays—Leave Savannah, 7:45 a. m.,
10j05 a. m.,*12:05 p. m., 3:35 p. m., 5:25 p. m.’,
6:50 p. 'nr.. 8:35 p. m. Returning, leave
Tybee, 6:00 a. m., 8:35 a. m., 11:10 a. m.,
1:00 p. m., 5:50 p. m., 7:40 p. m., 10:10 p. m.
Connections made at terminal points with
all trains Northwest, West and Southwest.
Sleeping ears on all night trains. Par
lor cars on day trains between Savannah
and Atlanta.
For further information and for sched
ules to all points beyond our line apply to
W. G. BREWER. City Ticket and Pass
enger Agent, 107 Bull street.
J. C. HAILE, General Passenger Agent
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager.
THEO. D. KLINE, Gen. Superintendent
JOHN M. EGAN. Vice President,
Savannah, Ga.
of attempting anything of the kind, so he
Just remembered that he was a cantank
erous old railroader, to be effectually sat
upon, right now. He finished filling the
rod cun, screwed the cover on carefully,
otid gave the end of the rod a shake to
try its fit on the pin. Then he turned
to the enraged old engineer, and, looking
him sfiunrcly in the eye. said, with a
firmness impossible to misunderstand:
"We’ll settle this matter right now.
Dave. 1 own just as much stock in this
engine :is you do. and I’m going to fix
tilings the way I want ’em; if they don't
suil you. you can change ’em back again
oil your trip; but don't you come round
trying to boss me, ’cause I won’t stand
it.”
Completely flabbergasted, corked up, his
gun effectually sp’ked, Old Dave withdrew
in disorder, while an irreverent young
wiper shouted: ’’Flash in the pan!" from
under the engine. That marked anew
era. It was the last lime that Dave tried
to run hoth sides of her. 11l feeling m
ereased between the two engineers until
Joe's love for Annie was hardly sufficient
to prevent him cordially hating her father
Communication lx tween them ceased at
once, but they heard from each other
daily. Brother engineers, hostlers and
wipers saw* to it that they were keot
posted. 1
Joe made up ail the time he could, an.l
Pave wou.dn’t be beaten. The train cam*
to he known as "The Flyer," and freight
nien fimt speculating as to how much of
her lime they could safely steal. All
Kinds look sides. The young runners hint
ed sagely at “new blood.” while the fo*.
* , s: ' ~ ’ hpy ' 1 seen "smarties” before
atid predicted a dull and sickening thud
Neither had any advantage. Scientific
running, the aniliiy lo get more wor£
out of an engine than she was built to
do, was the only thing that counted in
this contest Green flags and show
boards received scant couriesy, and both
ire i! were had up on the carpet and cau
tii.M. ,1 against reckless running. But com
petition was sharp, the train was making
a name for itself, and nothing had hap
pened— vat ; so ihe "super" winked ihe
o'h.r eve. and the race went merrily on
On the Fourth of July Joe made up 17
minutes on the* west hound trip-beat
ing the record. Next day Dave left 20
minutes laie, and made up 16— according
to the ira.n sheet. He had n row over it
,n the office, claiming 17. but had to accept
the official .figures. He said he would
have made up the whole 20 only for o’d
Flnnnig.in holding the semaphore against
him at Newtown, causing him to shut off
lost his way, and crawl all the wav
up the mtie and a half grade to the ela
tion.
Joe laughed when he heard that and
s.-.id he guessed tile old man was ioslrg
his nerve.
■’Losin’ my nerve, be II" Dave roared
when this was repented to him "Sav'
if I don’t make that kid lose tils nerve
'fore he has followed me around the di
vision another 30 days. I’ll take a ’hog’
on extra freight. Losin' my nerve! ’Well
blast him 1" and he dived under her with
an armful of wrenches, swearing to him
self and spluttering tobacco Juice In nil
directions.
When he left that trip—lS minutes late
he told his fireman he could pick him
self out a hog when he got back, if he
failed to keep a hundred and forty on her
oerv minute.
"Git 'em there. Dave!” the statlonmas
ter coiled after him as he pulled out.
Plant System.
Trains Operated byJOth Meridian Time—One Hour Slower Than City Time.
HEAD DOWN. ||_ II READ UP. ”
18 I 32 | 14 I 6 ’ 78 II TIME CARD |l 23 j 35 | 17 f~6 i TT~
Sun. | |S un. Ex. I I In Effect June 11. 1899. |j | J Sun. |Ex. 'su-
Only. I Daily [Only. ( Sua. [Daily!] |[Dally|Dally|Qniy.|Bun. |On,y‘.
6 45p 12 25p| 1 20a] 6 30a' 1 45aJ|Lv Savannah.... Ar|l 3 00a| 8 2oaill 25a| 6 OupjU wj
I | | jlO 2oa;jAr Augusta Lv|| j |l2 20p;12 Dp
12 15a! 4 24pj12 25p|12 30pj 6 13a|jAr ....Charleston.... Lv ill lap, 6 28a 8 15a 2 OOp S
| 3 23a] I | 7 20p||Ar Richmond.... Lv[| 9 05a; 7 30p i
j 7 Olaj j jii 30p 9r Washington — Lvj; 4 30ai 346 p I.” "
j 8 23aj | | l 08a||Ar Baltimore Lvj 2 50aj 2 25pj
j 1 03p| | | 6 53ai;Ar ....New York Lvjj 9 Oop, 9 30a!
! 25 |2l ( 35 i 23 || |j 78 | 24 | 32 | 22 I ~
DailyiDaily DailyiDailyll |lDaily;Dal!y!Dai]yjDaily|
| 6 Oopl 300 p! 8 40aj 3 20a|jLv ....Savannah Ar|| 1 2oa|lo 15a;12 06p fTTspL ~
I 8 28pj 4 38p! 9 Ma| 4 50a; Ar Jesup Lv||ll 44p| 7 51a |lO 42a| 7 04p .'"Z
I j 9 OOpj j 9 20a;[Ar Brunswick Lv|j 7 45p 7 30a| ;
I 2 15a[ j j 2 15pj|Ar Albany Lv|| 1 30a | 1 30pj...!!]]
I ;10 50pj 2 55p|1l 50aj;Ar Paiatka Lvj 5 lOp 4 10aj 10 00aj ]
| j 2 05aj 5 35p! jAr Sanford Lvjj 2 30p 12 45aj | ]
I J I 5 15pj 2 15p!jAr Gainesville.... Lvjj 4 lOp | 7 30a! \
| 7 30pj 3 20p|jAr Ocala Lvjj 2 OOp | 7 00a; ...
| I 7 00a|10 00p 11 Ar Tampa Lvj 9 55a 7 35p| |
| | 7 35a110 30pJ j|Ar ....Port Tampa.. Lv|j 9 30a 7 00p| j....
I 1 40a; j 2 20p|12 15p;jAr ...Thomasville.... Lv|[ 6 35p| 2 50a| 5 OOaj |
i 8 10a! | 9 30pj jj Ar ...Montgomery... Lvjjll 25aj 7 45pj | ;
| 8 30aj j 7 49aj 11Ar ..New Orleans... Lv|j 7 45pi 7 55aj | j
| 7 05aj | 4 05p| j|Ar Cincinnati Lvjj 5 45p[U Cop| | |.......
| 7 20aj | 7 16p| ||Ar St. Louis Lvj; 8 40aj 8 55pj ] j
j 7 44a| | 9 15p| j Ar Chicago Lvjj 1 50p| 7 45p|.......| |
All trains except Nos. 23, 32 . 35 and 78 make local stops,
Follinun Buffet Sleeping Car Service.
No. 21, Waycross and Jacksonville and Jacksonville and Port Tampa via Sanford
No. 23, New York and Jacksonville.
No. 25, Waycross and Si. Louis via Montgomery and Mobile and Ohio and
Louisville and Nashville Railways, and via Atlanta, Nashville and Martin.
No. 35, New Fork and Port Tampa via Jacksonville and Sanford and Waycross
and Cincinnati, via Montgomery. This is a solid vestibuled train from Washington
to Jacksonville.
No. 32, Port Tampa and New York via Sanford and Jacksonville. This Is a solid
vestibuled train from Jacksonville to Washington.
No. 78, Jacksonville and New York.
Steamship Service.
Leave Port Tampa for Key West and Havana 11 p. m. Mondays, Thursdays and
Saturdays; arrive Key West 3 p. m. following days; arrive Havana 6 a. m. Wednes
days, Saturdays and Mondays.
Leave Havana for Key West and Port Tampa 12:30 noon Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Saturdays; arrive Key West 7:30 p. m. same days; arrive Port Tampa 2:30 p. na.
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
E. A. ARMAND, City Ticket Agent, De Soto Hotel.
H. C. McFADDEN, Assistant General Passenger Agent.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
ILLUSTRATED PLAYING CARDS can be secured at 25c per deck upon appli
cation to Agents of the Plant System.
— - eg - : - - . -*: j
GEORGIA AM) ALAIUMA RAILWAY.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES—EFFECTIVE APRIL 23, 1899.
SHORTEST OPERATED PASSENGER | MONTGOMERY BY 74 MILES.
LINE BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND COLUMBUS BY 26 MILES.
(90th Meridian Time.) | ATLANTA BY 16 MILES.
Train 19)Train 17! | JjTrain 18] Train 20
7 30 pm, 7 25 am Lv Savannah Ar j 8 25 pmT~B 40 am
055 pm, 945 am; Ar Colling Ly ;j 609 pm 6 3o am
11 56 pm; 11 45 am Ar Helena Lvj| 4 05 pm| 4 30 am
j 8 03 pm; Ar Fitzgerald Lvj| 7 03 amj
| 1 40 pmjjAr Cordele Lvj 2 10 pm!
| 310 pm! Ar Americug Lv 12 34 pm;
J 5 20 pm Ar Columbus Lv;jlO 00 am
jlO 05 pm;;Ar Dawson Lv j 8 25 am
jll 15 pm Ar Albany Lvj' 7 00 am;
j 4 25 pm Ar Lumpkin Lvj;ll 13 am
10 30 am| 755 pm ;Ar Montgomery Lvjj 7 45 am;
**3 (XTamj 4 40 pmj;Ar Macon Lv | 8 45 amj 1 05 am
5 20 am, 7 45 pm iAr Atlanta Lv,; 5 30 am 10 50 pm
7 37 amj 2 30 am Ar Rome •. Lvj| 1 30 amj 8 20 pm
9 50 am, 6 00 am, Ar Chattanooga LvjjlO 10 pmj 6 10 pm
7 30 pm 4 05 pm; Ar Cincinnati Lvjj j 8 30 am
7 35 pm 12 25 n’n ;Ar Louisville Lvjj j 7 40 am
8 09 am 8 17 pm Ar Chicago Lvjj | 7 00 pm
11 20 am 12 25 n’t j Ar Birmingham Lvj| 4 50 pm
6 55 pm 6 50 am Ar Nashville Lvjj 9 10 am
11 35 pm|l2 40 pm jAr Evansville *... Lvjj 3 am
7 20 amj 7 16 pmjjAr St. Louis Lv j 8 55 pm
4 15 pm; 3 05 am Ar Mobile LV||l2 20 n’t j
8 30 pm! 7 40 am; Ar New Orleans Lvj| 7 45 pmj
Trains Nos. 19 and 20 run via Helena and Atlanta.
Train No. 17 connects at Savannah with F. C. & P. and Plant System trains
from New York, also with steamer lines. At Collins with Collins and Reidsville
Railroad and Stiiimore Air Line. At Helena wiih Southern Railway for all points
thereon. At Cordcle with Georgia Southern and Florida for Macon and beyond;
also with Albany and Northern Railway for Albany. At Rich-Tand with Columbus
division for Columbus, Dawson and Albany. At Montgomery with Louisville an</
Nashville for Mobile and Ohio Railroads for all points \\>st and Northwest.
Train No. 19 connects at Savannah with F. C. & P. and Plant System trains from
New Y’ork; also with steamer lines. At Helena with Southern Railway for all
points North and Northwest via Atlanta. Tickets sold to all points and sleeping
car berths secured at ticket office, Bull and Bryan streets, or at West Broad street
passenger station.
Sleeper for Atlanta can be occupied until 7 a. m. Sleeper from Atlanta open
at 9 p. rn.
S D. BOYLSTON, Ticket and Passenger Agent, Bull and Bryan streets.
\V. P.. McINTYRE, Union Depot Ticket Agent.
WM. BUTLER, JR., Trav. Pass. Agent, Bull and Bryan streets.
E. E. ANDERSON, Ast. Gen. Freight and Passenger Agent.
A. POPE, Gen. Freight and Pa sscngcr Agent.
CECIL GABBETT. Vice President an and Genera! Manager.
“I’.l register ‘O T’ at Franklin to-day. or
this mill will go to the shop on a flat car
to-morrow," Dave shouted back.
When through the tunnel and clear of
the freight yard, he dropped his hat in
the seat box and tied a red bandanna
around his head. He was out for busi
ness. Then was seen a bit of slick run
ning. The old engineer brought into play
all the fine points he had learned in
twenty years at the Ihrottle. He cut her
hack, or dropped her down a notch, as she
approached sags and knolls so slight as to
be imperceptible except to his finely-train
ed sense of feeling. He fed the cold wa
ter to her wih the precision of a physi
cian guiding a patient through a crisis,
and babied and cooxed her like a spoiled
child. And nobly she responded; she
seemed to lay her ears back, take the bit
in her teeth and fly.
The fire map—mindful of his chief’s ad
monition. and that a modicum of the
credit of success, as well as all the odium
of failure, would he his—toiled like a gal
ley slave. Between them she carried the
white feather at her safety valve mile aft
er mile, and the sueamhoat train was
wheeled as it never had been wheeled be
fore.
It was an ideal day. An early morning
shower had laid the dust and freshened the
dark, midsummer green of trocs and grass
until they sparkled gaily in the bright sun
shine. Even crabbed old Dave felt the
soothing influence of the perfect day as
he tore along counting mile posts and
noting time. He congratulated himself
on the squareness with which she chopped
it off. ami the lively manner in which she
picked up her heels, until he rememberel
that the kid had had the valves reset;
then he resumed the mental stunt known
to engineers as ‘‘flggerin’ ahead.”
In places she cou.d make up fractions of
a minme, in others he would be thankful
to hold his own. He must have enough
water in her so he could shut off his in
jector and lace the life out of her going
into Newtown. If old F*ann!gan should
hold the semaphore on him to-day he
would feel like murdering him. And so the
old fellow mused as he role along, getting
better matured every minute as he saw
that he was ' gittin’ ’em ihcie.”
The approach to Newtown was "poky.”
There was a mile and a half of s* iff grade
right up to the stat’.on—ihnt was wheic he
would need to have them going. Half way
up this grade the road was spanned by an
overhead i abroad btidge of solii masonry.
Fifty yards this side of the bridge there
was a freight yard switch, the iracK
branching off cn Dave's side. The yard
was concealed frem approaching ira ns by
an immense coal shel. w hich, at that time
of day, threw ad nse black sr.adow on the
switch. When the switch was open, its
round red target brazed a warning to ap
proaching engineers. When closed, the
thin edge of the sheet iron target was in
vis.ble. To render !t ab.-ol safe, it
was interlocked with a semaphore 1.50*) feet
down the tine.
The rules required that the snmaphore
be pulled down—to safety—only when in
view of the approaching engineer. It cou and
only be pulled down when the switch was
closed, because a ho e in the switch ro<i
would then be in a position ihat woufd al
low the semaphore lock.ng bar to pass
through it, locking the switch. W*hen the
bwiich wa3 open the soUI rod was pre
sented to the point of the locking bar,
preventing the semaphore being pulled
down. With the semaphore at “stop” the
locking bar would be withdrawn from the
hole and the switch could be thrown either
way, which was all right, as no train
would pass the semaphore when in that
i position.
Surly old Mike Flannigan had been on
the day shift at the switch for years. He
rigorously enforced the rule, everything
must be clear and the switch closed ten
minutes before a. first-class train was due.
Strong in his integrity, he showed but
scant couriesy, even to the roadmaster:
so he w as respected for his fidelity to du<y
as heartily as he was detested for his ar
rogance.
While disconnecting, to put In anew
se-t of head blocks, the section gang broke
the bolt connecting the semaphore lock
ing bar to its crank; hence, for a night
and a part of two days, the vital connec
tion between semaphore and switch was
broken. Mike, of course, knew, this, hut
during Ihe controversy, when, with un
necessary insolence, he drove the way
freight engine back into the yard, it slip
ped from h*s memory. Dave nearly pulb l
the whistle off the dome when he whipped
around the curve, and Mike, the infalli
ble, pulled the semaphore down, with the
switch open to the freight yard.
When Dave saw' the semaphore come
down promptly in response to his whistle,
his faith in that incomparable combina
tion, old Flannigan and the interlocking
system, assured him Ihat here was the
safest spot on the whole division. Sbe
was going like a frightened deer, but he
dropped her down a notch. The sham,
distinct rhythm of the exhaust blended la
a continuous roar, and she fled, rolling
wfildly. toward the open archw'ay und-r
the bridge.
The longer point of cut-off relieved the
boiler pressure, allowing the safety valve
to seat. Without taking his eye from the
track, Dave reached in and shut off the
injector. Again that plume of feathery
white steam—indicating the 140-pound limit
—appeared at the summit of the dome. As
Dave peered into the shadow of the eo:i
shed, the red target suddenly glared .*t
him like the the eye of the basilisk, anl
he experienced the sensation railroad nv n
knew when their time has come.
With her throttle open wide, and roaring
like the incarnate fiend of destruction, she
entered the switch at a 70-mile-an-hour
gait.
Hhc heeled, her head whipped around,
arid, rolling over, she plowed through ties
and rails into the yard. The ripping up of
track was drowned in the clash of rending
iron and hissing steam when she hit the
way freight engine. The baggage car, de
flected from its course before the Jann y
coulper broke, leaped over her and strip
ped the way freight engine to its boiler,
killing the engineer and fireman. Four
coaches rammed themselves into a cha
otic mass of splintered wood and twisted
iron against the railroad bridge. The rear
one upended itself on the pile—accentuat
ing the horror beneath—and stood at an
unstable angle, demonstrating “What
happens when an irresistible force meets
an immoveable body. n
While ruin and death were rampart at
Continued On Fage l‘A