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CINCO
THE SHORTER YU SMOKE ’EM
THE LONGER YOU LIKE ’EH.
‘THE BIG FOUR.’
THY ONE TODAV-SOLI) BY ALL LEADING DEALERS
A. SANTAELA‘S
CUBANOS
A Railroad
Detour.
By FRANK H. SWEET.
Copyright, 100*t. by Frank 11. Sweet.
Honduras lias arrived two
days earlier than expected.
Report at once. You will
take twenty cars over the N.
I. and N., via St. Louis, to Cincinnati,
where you will leave ton as per in
structions which will he handed you.
and then go on with the rest to Chi
cago.” .
The order was addressed to ‘‘Mes
senger 17.” and the office hoy who de
livered it knew that 17 meant Carl
’{outer of Hue Citronelle.
Hut Carl Reuter was just recovering
from a severe attack of the grip,
brought on by exposure while deliver
ing fifteen cars of bananas over the
L. and N. to Atlanta ten days before.
A sudden blizzard had swept down
upon them from the northwest, stalling
the train with packed snow and lower
ing the thermometer 40 degrees in
twice that many minutes. The cars
had been warmed as usual before leav
ing New Orleans, with the expectation
that Hie great mass of moist fruit
would generate enough heat of itself
for later warmth. But the change had
come too soon and been too great, and
in saving the fruit under his care Mes
senger 17 had neglected to take care of
himself. He had got back to New Or
leans, made his report, been compli
mented on getting his fruit through
the blizzard in good condition and then
had hurried home and to bed.
No steamer had come in since, and
the Honduras was two days ahead of
her tiine. Moreover, Carl was not a
man who eared to share his personal
matters with the public. Even his ill
ness was bis own. So it happened that
the company had not heard.
But twenty minutes after the order
came Carl Reuter, aged nineteen, was
hurrying into the office on the com
pany’s wharf. Anew man was at the
desk.
‘‘Seventeen, sir,” began Carl when
the man, whose eyes were running
down a page of a ledger before him,
interrupted with:
“Oh, yes. I see, 17. You are Carl
Reuter?”
“Yes. sir. My father”—
Rut the man was pushing an envel
ope toward him.
“There’s your instructions. Now hur
ry. You’re a younger man than I im
agined from what I have heard of you.
But sometimes young men do fully as
good work ns the older ones. No. no,”
as Carl tried to speak, “there’s no time
for talk now. Your cars are nearly
ready, I expect. We’ve half a thou
sand men down there emptying the
steamer and loading the cars. The
Honduras brought In the largest and
g
“THERE’S YOUR INSTRUCTIONS. NOW
HUKKY.”
linest lot we ever had. and they’re go
inn to be rushed through to market.
The agent told me to tell you messen
gers to be especially vigilant with your
thermometers on this trip. Have them
ripen or retail the bananas so they
will reach market in exactly the right
condition. But of course you under
stand all this,”
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“Of course,” Carl assented mechan
ically. Then, with evident anxiety.
“My father is"—
“Never mind your father now,” brisk
ly. “You may tell me about him when
you come back. Your train is on the
wharf, track 3, forty cars, twenty of
which will be in charge of Messenger
9, who will switch off at Corinth for
Memphis. Get your section heated as
rapidly as possible and then remove
the stoves. By the time you’re through
the train will be ready to pull out. I
think. Hustle! Oh, here’s Messenger
9 now,”
A heavily bearded man stopped at
the desk and took the envelope which
was handed him and then listened to
the same advice Carl had been given.
Carl lingered, apparently hoping for a
chance to finish what he had com
menced to say, but more messengers
were hurrying into the office, and the
man at the desk motioned imperatively
toward the wharf.
“Hurry along, 17,” he ordered. From
what I’ve been told I ‘suppose you to
Pe one of the best men we have, but
you mustn’t loiter like that. You
haven’t any time to waste in getting
your section ready.”
Carl’s lips tightened suddenly, and
he walked rapidly down the wharf,
overtaking the heavily bearded man as
he was crossing in front of two putting
engines to track 3. The man looked at
him and nodded.
“Where’s your father, Carl?” he ask
ed. “Seems lie and I are to be on the
same train this time, at least as far as
Corinth. 1 couldn’t ask a better man
on a rush trip like this is going to be.”
“Father’s sick,” answered Carl. “I
came down to see —to get his place.
I’ve been watching him the last four
or five nights, sleeping a little when I
could, but he's well enough now to
look after himself until I get back.”
“Sick?” with some surprise. “Why,
I hadn’t heard. And you’re to .take
his place on this Ain’t you pret
ty young? 1 wouldn’t have thought
the company ’d agree to it, they’re so
particular, though,” hastily, “you’re
perfectly competent, Carl. I know
that. You’ve been with your father so
many trips you know the ropes as
well’s he. And you’ve got a cool, clear
head. That’s what counts in ripening
fruit by thermometers. And still—well,
you know yourself how the company is
about young help. I’ve got a boy of
your age that I hope to get into a mes
senger’s job some day, but I’ve never
expected to till he was twenty-five or
more. You’re lucky; that’s all I’ve got
to say. If you make this trip all right,
you’ll be on the books for steady runs
before the year’s out.”
Carl’s face had grown hot and un
comfortable. *
“You don’t understand,” he explain
ed. *T’—
But a man down the track was look
ing toward them and motioning. Mes
senger 9 hurried away.
“Well, I hope you’ll have good luck,
as, of course, you will,” he called back
over his shoulder. “We’ll be too busy
to see much of each other on the trip.
I take the twenty end cars on account
of switching off at Corinth. Yours'H bo
forward.”
Until that moment Carl’s head had
been in a whirl. Events had followed
eacli other so rapidly, so apparently
beyond his personal option in the mat
ter, that he had allowed himself to be
borne on the current. Now he decided
to let it go on. lie had hurried down
to explain about his father and to see
if he would not be allowed to fill the
place. But from what he knew him
self and from what 9 had just said he
realized how slight was the chance.
Perhaps even his father would he sus
pended for a time. The company did
not make much allowance for sickness
or convalescence. Their work was too
important.
But, as 9 had conceded, he under
stood the work and could probably do
it just as well as his father, and just
now they were in special need of em
ployment. His younger brother was in
the hospital waiting an operation, and
money must be had to meet the ex
panses.
So lie hurried down track 3 to the
end of his—or rather his father’s—sec
tion of the train and began a careful
examination of the cars. Then he set
about seeing that they were properly
treated. The mercury was down to 34
degrees, which was unusually cold for
New Orleans, and 12 degrees lower
than the messengers had started out at
any previous time during the winter.
Other messengers were giving their
cars a little more heat than common,
for it would be twelve to fifteen hours
before the now cool bananas could lie
gin to generate warmth of their own, and
the freezing or even chilling of a train
load would mean the loss of a fortune.
Carl gave his cars several degrees more
than was customary and then had the
stoves removed ani the doors closed.
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Even with an outside low temperature
the carefully built cars would then re
tain heat until the fruit began to gen
enite some of its own. An hour inter
the train pulled out.
A cold wave had been predicted, but
apparently some weather condition had
stayed or swerved it in another direc
tion. Before they were beyond the city
limits the mercury commenced to rise,
and when they rumbled through Me
ridian it marked 60 degrees and con
tinued to go up.
Carl began to look anxious. All his
ventilators were now wide open, but
the air in the cars was moist and
stifiing. Instead of being chilled, the
danger was now that the bananas
would overheat, which would be just
as disastrous.
A messenger's duty is to see that his
fruit gets into market in just tlie right
condition. He must retard or advance
the ripening by cold or heat, according
to the condition of the fruit, the length
of the trip and other circumstances.
He must know from a mere glance at
a bunch of bananas how many degrees
of heat will be required to ripen it in
a prescribed number of hours, and if
he be a good messenger he must be
able to have his fruit in just the right
condition when he reaches his des
tination, whether it be four days or
fourteen. With refrigerator cars and
ventilators it is comparatively easy
during the summer to shift the ther
mometers to the requirements of the
fruit, and even in winter, when it con
tinues cold, there are the initial stoves
and the generated warmth to depend
upon, but when an unexpected hot
wave confronts a messenger in mid
winter lie lias little but the resource
of his own ingenuity to count on. Such
a problem was now facing Carl. When
they pulled into Corinth the mercury
was 70 degrees, and there was no air
stirring. Another twenty-four hours
like this and he would scarcely get his
fruit to Cincinnati, much less Chicago.
Messenger 9 came to him as his sec
tion was being transferred to a train
for Memphis. The weather report stat
ed that it was 12 degrees warmer at
Memphis than at Corinth, and 9 was
looking perturbed. His market was
only a short distance away noAv, but
twelve more degrees meant an un
controlled ripening of the fruit. It
could not reach even that near market
in prime condition, which was every
messenger’s ambition.
"I'm out and out sorry for you. Carl,"
said 9 sympathetically. “It’s going to
be tough on all the messengers with
such a special lot of fruit, but you’ll
have it worst. They assigned your fa
ther to the long Chicago run because
he has the name of being the best man
on the road, but for that very reason
it’ll be worse on you, being your first
trip. Y'ou’ll likely get some seconds to
Cincinnati, but I’m afraid the Chicago
ten cars won’t pay the running cost
over the railroads—that is, unless it
turns cold within a few hours.”
But there was no prospect of its
turning cold. A hurried consultation
WHEN THEY FUELED IN THE MERCURY
WAS SEVENTY DEGREES.
of the weather bureau at Corinth show
ed that three or four more days of
warm weather were predicted. It was
warm all along the road to Cincinnati,
to Chicago. The only cool places in
the country seemed to be in the moun
tains, about Chattanooga, up the Hud
son and west in the Rockies. Messen
ger U advised him to take the responsi
bility of selling the fruit at Corinth
for what it would bring. That would
save the company its total loss and
transportation charges.
Carl was not ready for that, how
ever. The consultation of the weather
reports had already given his quick
brain another idea, daring, but entirely
feasible, he thought. His cars would
have to wait three hours at Corinth to
connect with a freight which pulled
out directly behind the through ex
press north. Carl utilized the first
forty minutes of these three hours in
developing his plan. He went straight
to the office of the Southern railway,
whose branch ran from Cor;nth to
Chattanooga and there connected with
the N. I. and T. for Cincinnati and
Chicago.
“Wish to run your cars over our
road?” asked the division superintend
ent after listening to Carl’s hurried re
quest. “Yes, I reckon so. We’ll couple
them to the afternoon freight, which
pulls out about dark. The morning
freight leaves in half an hour, and
there isn’t time to connect you with
that. Besides, the train already has
thirty-four cars, as much as the engine
can carry up grade.”
“But that’s the very train I want to
couple to,” urged Carl impetuously.
“You forget that I have an engine.
W 7 hy can’t we put the two ahead?
They’ll pull fifty-four cars all right
even up grade.”
The superintendent nodded thought
fully.
“Yes, that might do,” he said. “In
fact, I think it will do very well.
There’s considerable snow up Chatta
nooga way, and two engines can plow
through it better than one. But we'll
have to hustle if we get you connected,
for the train must pull out onetime.
There’s another follows it forty min
utes later.”
They did hustle, and when the train'
pulled out for Chattanooga Carl’s twen
ty cars formed part of it_ Besides hav
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ing all tin* ventilators open, each car
had its door rolled back to let i-' every
whiff of air possible. At Do-.-vur the
thermometers indicated 45 d<v .Tees, at
Stevenson 34 degrees. Carl closed all
the doors and partly closed the ven
tilators of the cars destined for Cincin
nati. He was willing they should have
a few more degrees of heat now and
believed £iat he saw the way to get
ting his fruit to both markets in prime
condition. At Chattanooga the mer
cury registered 29 degrees, and all the
ventilators were closed.
Eight days later Carl reported at the
office on the company’s wharf. The
man at the desk listened to his expla
nation in grim silence, tapping the
ledger with the head of his pencil oc
casionally.
“It’s something very unusual,” he
said when Carl finished, "ve v unusual
and —er reprehensible, running our
cars about the country in a wild way
like that. Ordinarily it would mean
dismissal from our service—permanent
discharge—but—er." his face relaxing
somewhat, “under the circumstances,
and in view of the fact that you had
the longest run and are,the only mes
senger who got his fruit into market
in prime condition, we will say no more
about it except that we have put your
name on our'tiooks for regular runs. I
hope your father will be well enough
to make his trip when the next boat
comes in. We do not like to spare good
men. And. oh. yes," ns Carl was turn
ing away, his eyes shining, “tlie cashier
has a little recognition for you from
the company. You may stop at his
window’ as you go by.”
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Remember that the money you
squander won’t work for you.
We are always too young to have
know’ll better if our mothers are the
judges.
Men do a lot of things just as fool
ish as having their clothes button in
the back.
Dreaming of what you would do if
you had a large income is probably
about the slow’est way to get one.
The man who fails in liis efforts to
do something well is still more of a
success than the one who never tries.
A mother worries if her daughters
are not invited to parties and then sits
up and worries because they sire out
late when they are invited.
Ever occur to you that you ought to
dress up more and brush your clothes
oftener? Most people as they become
old neglect their personal appearance
too much.—Atchison Glob.
Cat Laughter?
What was the origin of the phrase
“Enough to make a cat laugh?”
Dr. Murray’s Dictionary notices only
"Enough to make a cat speak,” which
is explained as signifying something
extraordinary, especially something
very good to drink. “Old liquor able to
make a cat speak” is quoted from an
early eighteenth century source, and
therewith Stephano’s remark to Cali
ban is compared, “Open your mouth;
here is that which will give language
to you, cat.” Miss Squeers’ maidserv
ant said that only to see Miss Squeers’
friend. Miss Price, toss her head was
“enough to make a tomcat talk French
grammar.” But even that is not ex
actly laughing. Has it anything to do
w r ttli the mythical Cheshire animal?--
London Chronicle.
Dress In Old Massachusetts.
There w’as an ancient law’ in Massa
chusetts that ladies’ dresses should be
made long enough to hide their shoe
buckles. In 1660 an act of the general
court prohibited short sleeves and re
quired garments to be lengthened so as
to cover the arms to the w’rists and
gowms to the shoe buckles; “immod
erate great breeches, knots of ribbon,
broad shoulder bands, and they be,
silk roses, double ruffs and cuffs” were
forbidden. In. the same colony, in
1653, I. Fairbanks w\as tried for wear
ing great boots, but wuis acquitted.
The Esrly Worm.
Entertaining a children’s party at a
certain millionaire’s house in Now t
York, a woman professional teller of
stories to juveniles happened to em
ploy the old proverb, “The early bird
catches the worm.” A little boy ques
tioned the proverb promptly. “But
w r asn’t the worm foolish.” he asked,
“to get up early and lie caught?” “My
dear,” said the story teller, “that worm
hadn’t been to bed at all. He w T as
just getting home.”
Girl Friends.
Nell Did you tell her I couldn’t
come? Belle Yes, and she seemed
surprised. Nell—But didn’t you ex
plain to her that I’ve got the chicken
pox? Belle—Yes; that’s what surpris
ed her. She said you w’ere no chicken.
—Catholic Standard and Times.
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Behind the Sce-f's He !s, In a Manner,
a °risoner.
In a way, behind the scones is a pris
on. It is surely one ot the very few
places where intelligent men and wo
men are locked in their place of work
and where no message from the out
side world is allowed to reach them.
There is a tradition that actor folk are
of unusually emotional temperament,
and if therefore a telegram is received
at ike stage door it is never delivered
until after the performance. The mes
sage might be an invitation to supper,
or it might announce that the actor’s
favorite broth r has boon hanged, it
might be an offer in a stock company
to play twelve times a week, or it
might tell the actor that he was the
father of twins or that his wife would
die without seeing him again unless
he came at once to her bedside. I 1 ail
of this infer tion i- : , vtl not to
he good / / l .o actor's emotional 'lis
ps. tion. and the telegram is therefore
given the same distinction as the
“mash” note and kept until after the
performance is finished. It cannot be
said that the actor’s emotional dispo
sition is very seriously considered be
yond the cast iron rule in regard to
telegrams. Ills comfort and intelli
gence have been s’i.ght!y flattered in
a few theaters of very recent date, but
for the most part the condition of
behind the scenes in most playhouses
is not calculated to breed particularly
high thoughts of any kind. Asa matter
of fact, he is treated little better than
when he was only a “strolling" player
—a gypsy—several centuries ago.—
Charles Belmont Davis hi Outing Mag
azine.
Five Indispensable Drugs.
“Yon need, five drugs,” said a foolish
physician to a patient—“water, food,
air, sleep and exercise.” But the pa
tient sought another doctor, and the
foolish physician died poor.—Saturday
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Turn your sorrows outward into cur
rents of sympathy and deeds of kind
ness. and they will become a stream Oi
blessings,—Cuyler.
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