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THE BUCK BESS.
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By BABRIET PRESCOTT BPOPFORD. !
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' himself plunged i
into a new element and living the life
of thoEe already blest. With the :
first one his love has grown as he i
has grown, and his weaknesses with him.
It may he that love seldom conquers
those weaknesses; but with the other
love comes a heavenly tyrant and usurps
the place of everything less noble; his
heart is clean swept and garnished—a
shrine for the object of his worship; he
has undergone a purification, a sanctili
cation that is scarcely less than that of
a sacrament. It was so with me, I
know, at least, when 1 first thought of
weeing Id.'irs'iret for my wife, and pos
t(‘.".ion of her promise never made it
otherwise.
To say that rhe was beautiful would
fail to give even a penciling of her pres- <
once; and just as impossible would it be
for mo to s' t down any categorical de- !
ieriplion of her loveliness; of the large, .
fair, pale face; the eyes, so gray ami :
dark that they grew on you as you gazed,
like the shades of evening from which I
the stars look out; of the features, which
would have been sculptured had they
been less instinct with pulsing and dilat
ing life; of the tresses of finest, darkest
hair, sweeping down the temples in .
countless curves, of the unspeakable t
Bweetn. ss of the smile—that smile which ;
seemed to fill your heart and soul with I
sunshine and warmth. Never was there
such another woman made as Margaret.
Her mind, too, was no less peerless than 1
her person. It had a trait like light it
self, and gave color and vitality to every
object that it rested on. Os humble 1
birth, and with no means of education 1
beyond those afforded by the village 1
school and the church library, she had
nevertheless cultivated herself to a point '
beyond that attained by many women 1
w hen living a luxury of life and breath- '
ing the atmosphere of art. ;
It has always made mo wonder, my
relation with her, what she could have ■
seen in mo so to bestow herself as she '
did. 1, myself, though still so young 1
was not entirely a boor; indeed, being u 1
poor man, 1 was thought eccentric, per- 1
haps because 1 was not a fool; but, 1
though now sitting at my ease, a toler- •
ably well read man of wealth, having 1
climbed easily by others' help, speculated '
largely and daringly, studied where I <
could and as I went, yet then 1 was only *
the master of an engine on the Great <
Interior Railway, running a night train 1
across the state, and earning my living '
by tho sweat of my brow, in soot and '
grime and smoke, mid all in tho midst of 1
u wild relish of danger. i
It in a singular fact that, tho human 1
mind can become habituated to any ox- 1
] th nee. Though I shall never forget 1
the night when 1 first drove my engine
out of Waterwey, not too familiar with
the route, dreading tho darkness and the |
responsibility, tremulous, indeed, with a
thousand tremors, yet now’, w» re it twice <
as many years since 1 laid hand on lover i
or signaled for a station, 1 could take :
heroutto-nipht, oyer ftiarsh and meadow I
and drawbridge, up the long mountain I
grade, across the terrible trestlework, I
round that curving precipice, ono side I
sheer rock up into the stars, tho other 1
nothing but black darkness and an I
empty gulf of dizzy depth, through the I
thick, reverberating tunnels, down the f
long incline, and whistle for tho brakes I
at Babylon, with as much nonchalance <
as when I took the reins from my groom i
this morning and gave my brown beau- 1
ties their hcadfora breezy bitof business i
down the park. t
She was a rusher, that engine of mine, i
the Black Bess —they had not begun call- :
ing them then for tho successful candi
dates—and would do her mile a minute i
if you asked it: though I've known the
time, of a rainy 5 o'clock morning,
when, w ith all steam on, her wheels <
made their revolutions and she stood
Still; and, to get her along the slippery t
side of an up grade, both fireman and <
myself, jumping otf. had to walk by her <
panting side and sprinkle tho wet rails '
with sand to toll her on. But, although <
I've owned since then as choice speci- i
mens as ever stepped the turf. 1 never i
eared for any thoroughbred of them all i
as 1 did for the Black Bess, and 1 stabled t
her ia» carefully, and, in early days, i
handled her as daintily, as though she I
were t';e expected winner of a handicap.
Berh::[>s 1 loved my iron steed all the <
better for the dangers through which <
she had ixnscd, since there are few 1
whose affections are not drawn to their
companion in peril; and the Black Bess <
and 1 had had it out one night, just as, i
clearing tho Waterwey suburbs, we put s
on all speed for the long rim across the <
marshes. The train was full, the steam i
w:s up. the very wind whistled behind r
us v. b.iie we cleft it; light as a feather, 1
tho Black Bess went as if she trod the I [
air. I \
Suddenly, with a sharp turn of the I >
course from the shelter of a young t
thicket, we came out on a low cross t
country road—a kind of a causeway t
raised upon the meadows, and cutting t
diagonally “cross the railway track. So t
unfrequented was this road that 1 could <
r remember ever having noticed a
vehicle on ail its long and winding sweep: i t
l>::t at this moment an enormous lead es -1
hay, tilting heavily down on one side, i:
is ted directly across the track and ; ’
blocked the way, not only for an instant's • i
lime, but was tixed there, lean see it <
here, if 1 close my eyes, with such | l
weird distinctness hi every line as might j <
be ii' a grave light had stumped it on the • •
plate of some supernatural camera—the i
lour great steaming in the glow of j t
the headlight, rising like a projection i I
from the darkness, with wild eyes and ! I
interlocked horns, arid trampling and ; :
tugging at the arrested wheels, the tilting :
mountain of meadow hay, the drunken
teamster, half hidden in its pillowy
masses, asleep, and with his jug beside
him. In vain my touch upon the Lili i
rope or the rod; in vain the short, sharp
shrieks of Black Bees; while i read:. : 1
my hand to reverse the engine we should i
scatter all to flinders. One second the ; i
face, the face of that sleeping man. <
branded in on my brain as if 1 a s ar- :
ing iron; the next, a wild tho; I : <d ■
Margaret, a great blow, and dumb cark
ness. The man and his load were du -t
together, the Black Bess was off the 1
track and above her wheels in meadow
mud. and I lay stunned and senseless.
When a person recovers from a con
cussion of tho brain, it would sometimes
be tetter if he had died. I learned this
to my cost one day; but I did not think
so on first getting ateut after my long
illness, through which 1 had ever teen
conscious of the tender face of Margaret
hanging above me, and a part of the
delirium of which had been a singular
confusion of her face with that of the
man asleep in the mountain of meadow
hay The world was in the full, deep
flush of summer; life seemed so good,
love was so sure; Margaret was con
stantly beside me, the Black Bess was
ready for me, and Christmas day, when
it should come wrapped in its soft snows,
was to give me ray wife forever.
I got up quickly, too quickly —too
quickly by half; a long convalescence
would have acted like a buffer to the
shock I had received, and deadened its
effect on all my system; but every
month’s salary was precious to me now; !
it was so much more added to that al- ;
ready laid up for the enriching of the
humble little home whose prospect then |
was heaven; and before Octoter had
reddened her parallels, 1 drove the Black
Bess again by night out of Waterwey.
Meantime my head was far from right.
I knew that by the dull ache that sate
upon it like a leaden cap; by the sharp .
pains that sometimes stabbed my eye- !
balls, as if needles were in the entering
rays of light. Often, too, when people
were speaking with me, their words
sounded dully a long way off, and if I
roused myself to some manner of en
forced attention, 1 paid for it by a fresh
assault of blinding pain. When in this
condition. I went through many of my
duties by mere mechanical routine, and
1 think my faithful fireman, George I
Rowe, did more at such times toward
running the train on time than did its
engineer—unless the Black Bess were
herself gifted with that sort of wizardry
and more than human power which I
sometimes fancied belonged to her. All
this annoyance of mine, however, was
but intermittent; had it been otherwise, j
had it been constant, I should not live to I
remember it: and gradually I began to
believe that it was wearing off, never i
dreaming that it was but assuming a I
new form.
My spirits had been greatly depressed
during the period when 1 felt these re
sults of my disaster the most acutely;
they became as much too buoyant when
1 found that my natural strength and
vigor were conquering the recurrence of
the attacks. I had fully realized how
wrong and how impossible my intended
marriage with Margaret would bo under
such circumstances, and only when I
found myself able to look the rising sun
in the face, and to drive from twilight
to twilight, from the gray of evening to
the gray of dawn, without an extra
throb in my temples, did I dare to dream
fresh dreams of my long desired home
and its delights. Tho only trace of
trouble that appeared to be remaining
with e, at Imast, was a slightly impairi d
eyesight, so that what once 1 could dis
tinctly see in detail when at tho distance
of a mile, now became but a blur, and
rendered me, on more or less seldom oc
casion, subject to some optical delusion.
However, tiiis did no l , interfere with my
business, and, as 1 said, 1 went and came
in such an atmosphere of expectation
and assurance, that 1 might have seemed
to any spiritual obsei ver like one trans
figured and walking in a nimbus.
Things were in this state with tue
when one night, as usual, 1 took tho ex
press out of Waterwey. It was a some
what heavier train than my ordinary
one, ami in the safe of the special car
that went through with us was a large
amount of coin and valuables. Remem
bering some daring robberies, in w Inch
trains had been thrown from the track
by means of obstacles placed there by
tile villains who subsequently rifled
them, 1 resolved on an even more par
ticular lookout than common: I told the
Black Bess, as 1 mo tilled, that, she must
spring to it, for there was work to do, ■
and she answered to my hand like a live
creature. 1 heard them sounding the I
irons down our long length—then the I
word was given, and our quivering car
rier, starting well in hand, soon warmed
to her work, and bounded along as if she
meant to be the victor of some demoni
acal race.
I have often thought, since those days,
that there can be nothing like that man's
sense of mastery whose hand it is which
gives the first motion to some long train
crowded with bustling life and tumult.
Al! those beings, their joys, their fears,
their expectations, their very futures and
existences, are his. hang on the falling
of his eyelid, on the turning of his finger.
There is not. such a potentate as he the
earth over. But when 1 drove an engine j
myself. I thought of no such thing: were ;
my wheels oiled, my boiler fed, my valves \
right, were we well wooded, was I on ■
time, should 1 earn my pittance a day—
my fant ies seldom took a higher flight.
But this is aside.
It was at thecloseof a dark and stormy
day. soon deepening into a black autumn
evening, of which 1 was about to speak. '
No stars in heaven, no lights on earth.
The sir was that fresh, wet coolness so I
delightful to breathe even when you got
it. as I did, between puffsand whiffs of j
smoke: pools of water, everywhere on I
our way, waked up to flash like moons j
in our light as we left them; little new
made brooks were chasing each other
beside us: woody places kejit up a per- j
petual dripping and dropping: and the
whole earth was soaked in running rivers
of rain. The long perspective of the
track, with its rails glittering in mois- ;
ture. rose by all its length into heaven, ■
and seemed'to hang up shininglv before
us like a ladder of light, the only fixed
tiling in all the changing, shimmering, !
calendered darkness.
As we appeared to wind our path up !
tiffs splendid highway, suddenly what
had bi on but a blot of blackness upon it
a long w;:y ahead, resolved itself to tuv
vision into a less indistinct body, and "I
fancied some laborer, returning from his
day's work, had fallen asleep beside the
track, had. -perhaps in hisslumber, rolled
over upon it. Such stupid recklessness
was n. t uncommon. I sounded the whis
tle to worn him, er.d then, as he did not
stir, io jat down the brakes. We had a
full head of steam on. and were rushing
forward with hardly abated progress,
and, straining my gaze. I discovered that
the thing 1 had taken for a man now,
by the size of the dark spot it filled,
must be a woman, with her drapery
blown loosely abroad by the breeze, I
snatched my field glass, and, steadying
it for a moment, a face flashed in' the
disk —a single moment —and then, my
horror stricken eyes blinded, my tongue
cleaving to the verv roof of my mouth,
w ith a taighiy shock I reversed the en
gine. and, the wheels revolving the
oilier way, we slipped slowly up. by our
impetus and paused within a yard of the
actual place.
I leaped off to search the spot. George
MAN who loves I
from his boyhood <
her who becomes <
his fate, hardly i
knows the nobil-
1 ity of his love, as
’docs he who,
from a lonely con- ; :
dition of which
he thought well
enough before,
suddenly finds
Rowe, likewise, leaped after me. There
i was nothing whatever on the track save
the shadow of a clump of bushes break
ing the long glitter of its steel. I looked
about me with a frantia swiftness—l
could not feel convinced that no real ob
ject lay there. I heard the car windows
rattling up, and turned about to see tho
passengers' heads thrusting out. and all
the brakemen as well bending forward
and peering into the darkness for the
cause of our standstill and the shock
that had thrown these from their seats
and those from their feet. Directly after
ward. at sound of the conductor's voice,
I seized an old log lying beside the end:
of the sleepers and lifted, pushed and
shoved one extremity of it as if I had
just thrown it out of our path. George
Rowe stared at me, but said nothing.
The conductor seized on the intimated
: occurrence with avidity, wondered and
gaped about him for an explanation d
such a disaster being prepared for us.
, hade me run slowly and returned with
I something to gossip over in every car
riage of them all. But. as for me, f.'.r
, from heeding him the least. I increaseo
i the pressure to some such point as that I
felt on (he beating of my heart and t. •
| breathing of my lungs, and the Black
Bess ran as if tho fires of hell were blaz
ing beneath her boilers. It was the face
of Margaret that 1 had seen!
I lost no time on that next day in seek
ing Margaret. She was away from
home, visiting at Brookford, a Jittk
town which was a watering station of
all the trains along my own route. A
shudder, foolish to the pitch of idiocy,
seized me at the intelligence. If that
were not verily Margaret's face hoi.
nearly it might have been!—for Brook
ford was but a mile behind the place
where last night I had brought our train
to a [;ause. I telegraphed to her, and
she came down with a companion to
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She came down with a companion.
meet mo in the evening ns I returned. I
saw her sweet face shining under the
lamps as we drew up, but so fearfully
like my vision of the night before that 1
hardly dared to think it real. In answer
to my hurried inquiry she said she had
been out in the rain on the previous
night, returning with a friend from a
house where they had called, had stum
bled anil fallen across the railway, but
had tiieked herself up and was safe and
dry beneath the roof tree long and long
before either down train or up train
passed that way. She jested me on my
clairvoyance, then laughed that she filled
up my eye so completely.
I saw her standing there while we
backed down to switch off again on the
main track, gazing and smiling after me.
standing so securely with her light, rust
ling figure, airy and supple ns some glad
young white birch in the breeze; then we
thundered by with our terrible tread, and
I lost her! If there had been a score ol
faces on the track as we drove along 1
should have seen none of them that
night for brooding over and caressing in
my happy thought the pure and perfect
f.a o that I really saw beneath the flaring
station lamps.
I had almost forgotten this incident of
my nightfaring—l mem. of course, the
vision on the rails—when, some week,
afterward precisely the same thing oc
curred.
It was a soft, starry night of the In
dian summer this time. There was n
ceaseless glimmer of harmless sheet
lightnings through the sky. the horizon
lilting every few moments with the in
nocent reflection of some deadly storm
in tho meridian beneath it. We wen
making about our ordinary running,
when, like a quick illumination, directly
in our [jath. the same obscurity, thesami
resolving—there lay the I'ace!
1 knew as well now that it must be an
illusion as that 1 was a breathing being
1 did not essay any motion by which it
should be suffered to impede our prog
ress. but 1 stared at it with a fascinate-,
gaze. The beautiful face!—its great gray
eyes gleaming so softly up as the belch
ing monster pounded down to ikizrff
them blind with its fierce and blazin;
headlight, to crush them from then
sockets with its remorseless wheels. 1
could no more help my hands lifting
then than my heart's beating.
In another instant tho train was shiv
ering with the shock of its reverse. 1
was off again, searching the place—on
again, aware of my folly; and we spun
straightway along the track as if let
loose from a meteor. 1 heard Georgi
Rowe muttering at me in amazement.
1 but 1 made him no reply. At Brookford
tho conductor harangued me storraily.
: and hade George Rowe have a chargi
over me. He thought that 1 was a
drunken man, and well he might, for 1
i felt my face so flushed, and my eyes sc
pained, that the latter may have glowed
like (lames in a bed of coals, while my
: brain burned and boiled, and bubbled,
till it seemed like bursting. I was, in-
I deed, well nigh beside myself.
I wrote to Margaret of this second oc-
■ currence, and asked her what it meant.
Was I really becoming out of my head.
Was I even out of my head already? She
replied in much the same strain as be
fore, jesting and cheerful: but it wa.-
like a transparent mask, and I eouh
clearly detect an anxiety and alarm ot
her port 1 eneath the whole of her pk’.yfu
petition r. .1 to turn her into a grave light
■ and wiltef-the-'visp, nor to e nmvt 1..-;
personality with such diahol.. al thing,
as ti'.e femes of the St. Elmo's fire tha:
every sailor sees on his top:::;'.-;, on.
which 1 l:.:d doubtless a thousand times
: beheld running before me on the rails.
1 determined then that unless my mine
were really affected 1 would take n.
more notice of any renewal of this ap
parition than I would of the copper cent
and brass pins which adventurous school
b; vs were i:i the h::!>it of placing upe.i
tl:e track for the wheels to flatten ou
ir.t•' nothingness. My resolutions. I neei
not say. were as worthless as the flat
tencxl ['ins, and quickly 1-ecame paving
st -v el t::;:t r.gi.m v. here asplmlt wa
pri:::. -. ally found in use.
1 r the face haunted me—haunted m<
’ '■ that 1 wonder at myself now, and be
lieve t! : t only the grace and goodness o'.
' j heaven kept me from the endless perdi
- i tion of hating the original. It never
■ came twice in immediate succession, but
1 i at intervals of a few weeks, when it
i ; would seem to have accumulated power
• to expand, and. unds r circumstances of
; ingenious devilishness, it made its ap-
■ pearance. In many instances 1 was fort
-1 unate enough to have some ready excuse
I on hand for our delay, but sometimes ;
• the prodigy vanished before I slackened |
speed, and then no excuse w: .s needed;
• but when that was net the case, as most
frequently it happened, and I was aban-
, doned to my own devices, and the be
wilderment and consternation of the
1 I train, it began to lx? believed among the
: ; employes that I had become a hard fel-
■ | low. Shortly following upon that 1 was
. | summoned by the superintendent and :
i ; reprimanded for my intemperance —I
1 j who had never drunk a drop in my life
i , —doggedly promised him tetter fashions,
: for had 1 explained thir.gs wimt director
i I of them all, I asked myself, would have
• : suffered a crazy man to take out the
night express from Waterwey?
■ I Meanwhile, owing solely to these af
i . fairs, my marriage hud ix;en indefinitely
; postponed: for. of course, while liable to
: I tiiese hallucinations and visitations. 1
■ was no fit subject for the assumption of
new bonds and duties. Margaret re
mained as she had ever been—an angel
of mercy; she soothed me, solaced me.
i : and we took counsel together how best
i to overcome my difficulties; but finally,
when all our expedients seemed futile,
: she imperativedy bode me resign my situ
. I ation, for she felt that wo were mur
I dcrers, a thousand times multiplied, in
! continuing to hold so many lives in risk
: with tho possibilities to which I might be
■ I driven by my mad fantasies.
This command and entreaty of hors
I was after a time when 1 had seen the
1 face more vividly than Ik lore, more
beautiful, more human, more piteous.
We were coming along :.ri inclined
plane, with the brakes down; at the foot
of it the track ran curving over the
mighty trestle work of the Windriver
valley. It was impossible to stop the
train, for it descended aln-ady without
I steam; and ahead of us lay the long,
j slow curve of the trestle work, as—a
: sheer abutment of 2GO feet, filled in with
| sliding sand—it rose above the low, broad
; fields that slept, all purple and peaceful,
I in the silver flood of moonlight at that
1 fearful depth beneath us.
There was but a single alternative; I
j could throw the Black Bess and her train
i from the track as we touched the curve,
and wo should be dust before tho valley
j could feel us or tho river cover us; or,
| with the face before me. I must crash
over and through that one dear thing of
i all my heart.
(To bo continued next week.)
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Lots of people are inconsistent
enough to expect a mule to have
horse sense.
Two men 60 years old fought a
prize fight in New Jersey the other
: day. They were, trying to knock
: out old age.
The Dodge of Venice was a pret-
■ty good man in his day, but the
I Corn Dodger of the south could get
' away with him everytime and have
I a length to spare.
Count von Moltke says he
i doubts if he ever handles another
I army in the war. As he is 88 y< ars
I old his opinion on this question is
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I could not be crowded behind the
j gills of every other variety of
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to issue an edict prohibiting Bra
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i they reach the ripe old age of 10
years and the girls are mad about
An Indiana girl flared up and
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Sunday evening, and he didn't want
to explain that he had been wash
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The coroner's jury in the case of
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ask our at your p!;.ce Lg- leruis and
prices. If you carir.ot find our agent, write
direct to nearest address to you beiow named.
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and HYPOPHOSPHITES
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piiites is maelk ..-.ici v e tile scions.
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FITS, EPILEPSY or
FALLIHG SICKNESS,
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Ely’s Cream Balm
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Restores the Senses of Taste, Smell
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