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SUNDAY MORNING.
Where the ruddy sunbeams blaze
Through the drowsy morning haze;
Where, with shifting sheen and shimmer,
Winking whitecapa gleam and glimmer,
And the wooing south wind plays
With the laughing summer sea; —
Take me thither, Memory.
W here the breakers comb and crawl
Underneath their gaunt sea-wall.
While their winnowed spray is laving
Sedges in lone crannies waving,
And the gray gulls dip and call'
By the sleepy summer sea;—
Take me thither. Memory.
I HIS “WILDCAT” TRAIN.
| How Engineer Pow ers, in Honduras, Ran
jv the Jaguar Special.
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TItANGB affairs happen
iipnii
of Spanish Honduras. Hold
ups, collisions and runa
way trains are of frequent occurrence
on its fifty miles of length, but its most
extraorduary incident was that in
which George Powers took part.
It was in the "dry season.” when the
banana plants were weighted with
their bunches of green fruit, ready for
cutting.
"One day”—as Powers tells the story
—“the fruit steamer Breakwater an
chored unexpectedly in the offing of
our Caribbean Sea harbor of Porto
Cortez. Soon, at her agent's orders,
there was hoisted at her masthead the
signal indicating, ‘ Fruit, ready for a
quick cargo.” And when the ship had
reached the dock u fruit train was
being made up.
“Then we learned that the Break
water was expected to sail for New Or
leans with a cargo of bananas early
tU[>* next morning, extraordinary of-
Brts must lx- made to load her with a
suitable shipment In less than a day's
time. To hurry was decidedly nut top
ical. but the bonus given by the rail
road officials was as oil to lubricate the
machinery of tin* ‘transportation de
partment,’ and 1 was handed these or
ders:
“ ‘Engineer Powers'will take Engine
No. J3. with eighteen platform cars,
and proceed with best speed to La Pi
ntienia, load cargo of bananas, return
to San Pedro, load fruit there. Beport
at this office after the run. and not
later than 10 p. m. to-day.
‘Colville, Supt. of Trans.’
“Such an order meant ‘hurry.’ My
fireman oiled 13. the only locomotive
available, and the yardmen made up
the train. By noon we were started.
There was work enough ahead to keep
us ail out of mischief for the next ten
hours. To cover a round trip of 100
miles, load eighteen cars with bananas
and pull them Into Porto Cortez within
ten hours would be the record for speed
upon the Honduras Railroad.
“So old 13, with throttle wide open,
was soon puffing up the rough roadbed
to La Plmlenta at an unaccustomed
pace. Tlic telegraph line was equally
busy, and when we ran past San Pe
dro the ox-cars were already unloading
their nine and ten hand hunches along
side the track in readiness for our re
turn. Between 4 and 5 o'clock we
whistled far La Ptmienta, the ter
jp.ntJt',
> “There the station agent had a gang
fof 'load rs' ready, and before tile rain
had quite stopped the green bunches
were being passed to rfh- loaders in tin*
cars. In an incredibly short space of
time the bananas rose, tier upon tier,
to a heavy load, and all the time my
fireman fed the sticks of soft pine to
our roaring tire-box, for we should
ted a good load of steam to get back
San Pedro in season. The agent sa •
stically asked me. ‘ls the engine
good for the heavy pull without a
breakdown?’ and I replied, “Number 13
is ab.our to surprise everybody by it rec
ord trip.’ And so we did. both because
of and in spite of an unprecedented ad
venture.
“At t> o'clock we had loaded all tlic
fruit in sight, ami whistling for ‘open
brakes,’ we started for .Sail Pedro.
The down grade helped us materially.
In less than an hour we had covered
the distance and were taking the fruit
aboard from our last stop.
“Delay began here. There were few
men to load the fruit, and f|e handling
of it was slow: every buiicif was thor
oughly inspected by tbc loaders, lest
they should grasp tarantula crawling
■among the bananas. But at 8 o'clock
the train was loaded, the pitch-pine
headlight was lighted, the throttle
opened and the whistle shrieked its
farewell to San Pedro.
“Two hours only were left in which
to make the run in schedule time over
thirty-five miles of rolling country and
with a weight of eighteen heavily load
ed cars. The ‘passenger.’ with her
light freight, was allowed four hours
for the same run. The darkness was
intense, and the vibration of the train
soon became so great (hat the head
light was shaken into a mere sputter
ing, and at a lurch went out. The
front of the engine became the limit of
my vision.
“The white rnile-rna rkers were passed
so quickly that my fireman lost his count,
and we could not tell where we were.
But No. 13 was doing her best. Not a
valve had blown out nor a rod broken.
Our clattering over the track was va
ried only by the frantic squealings of a
fine, fat pig, sent by the* agent at La
Pimienta to the captain of the Break
water as a delicacy for his table. Piggy
. continually squealed from its berth in
an open fruit car.
“In one place a large limb extended
from a tre4fc>nt over the track, just
high enough to clear the stacks of the
AN INVOCATION.
EI 0. P. LESTER.
Where the wee, hushed ripples croon
To the stars their wizard rune.
While, from out the purple ocean.
Venus-wise, with languorous motion
Trembles up the golden moon
O’er the magic summer sea; —
Take me thither, Memory.
Where, betimes, the straining ear
Phantom-like, may faintly hoar
Old-time voices melt and mingle
\\ ith the surge upon the shingle.
And the night-wind wailing drear,
To the sea. the sea. the seal—
Take me thither. Memory!
passing engines. The pig seemed to
scream more loudly than before, and
we heard anew sound.
“What was that?” asked my startled
fireman. ‘Did you hear that crash?’
* ” ‘Oh. never mind, give me more
steam,' I replied, for I knew we must,
he nearing a stefp grade. I blew the
signals to release the brakes, but with
out avail.
“In a minute we struck the bill. It
was a hard one to climb, and the en
gine puffed so loudly that l did not no
tice the cessation of the pig’s squeals.
Slowly but surely we were coming to
a standstill. The brakes still seemed
set. I again blew the signal for their
release, hut the train came suddenly
to an irresolute stop, although making
herculean efforts to keep going.
“The incline had but begun. To start
the train was impossible.
“I lighted *a pine torch, sprang from
the cab to ascertain the situation, and
had passed several cars when the most
terrible yells echoed through the for
est. The men from the rear of the
train were shouting at nie. It was im
possible to distinguish what they were
saying because of the yells which were
rising apparently between tne and
them. These did not alarm me much,
for the creating screamed like a wild
cat, n reckless hut not dangerous, night
prowler. So on 1 walked toward the
rear of the train.
"Approaching the trainmen I heard
them shout, ‘Look out for the jaguar,
Powers!'
"Now, no wild creature is more dan
gerous to man lv night than a jaguar.
I halted and stared. 1 could now see
the glaring eyes of the fferee brute as
he pawed the lifeless pig. These eyes
followed me with such hostile intent
that 1 hastened back to the cab for the
fireman and iny Winchester.
“Of course one of us had to stay
with the engine, so I left my fireman
in charge and returned alone, with
torch in hand and ritle ready. The
trainmen came toward me front around
the rear of the train. They told me
that the jaguar SSist have been crouch
ing on the overspreading limit, and
having heard the squeals of the pig.
must have leaped recklessly into the
passing train for his prey. The train
’met had discovered hint when they
started to answer my signal of ‘brakes
off.’ The brute held them at bay.
They were in the rear car. ttie Jaguar
was in the next, one, and they could
not pass over the train to release the
brakes. The eighteen loaded cars,
most of them having tightened brakes,
had stopped No. 13 on the Incline.
“f must either give tip hope of
getting to the port: hi tins'* for loading
the Breakwater,, or else kill or drive
away the .jaguar. The tire of his eyes
was intensified by the fiielif’Tihg light
of the torch. It was not. a pleasant, gri
mace when the brute suggestively
wiped his lips and tongue with those
huge paws.
“The engine gave a sudden lurch.
My fireman must have been meddling.
It threw the animal from its balance.
His tail lashed. Handing the torch to
a man 1 raised my Winchester. The
beast glared ferociously, and meas
ured the distance to the ground. Some
of the men run. As the animal seemed
about to Jump I tool; hasty aim and
pulled tile trigger. Apparently the .ja
guar was unharmed, but he bad
changed his opinion about the jump,
and calmly trotted along the tops of
the bananas toward the engine. I
aimed at him again and pulled the trig
ger. Then I remembered that, the oply
cartridge In the Winchester was the
one I had fired.
“I shouted to the fireman, but before
I could make him understand the cow
ardly fflfynv jumped from the cat) and
scampered into the forest. Luckily
there was no other jaguar awaiting
him.
“I wont toward the cab, expecting to
find the jaguar in possession, and de
termined to club him out with the butt
of uiy gun, but he was not in the cab.
I blew ‘brakes off,’ and casually looked
around. On the floor of the tender,
among the wood and casks of water,
stretched it at full length and appar
ently crouching for a spring. I saw the
jaguar. I jumped from the engine.
The thought: of the fireman’s cowardice
did not then amuse mo. As fast as pos
sible I ran toward the rear of the train.
“Ten o'clock was approaching. The
ship could not receive her fruit unless
we started immediately. In tuy baste
I had left the rifle ip the cab; now I
took a crowbar which one of the brake
men handed me. But the plan from
which I hoped most was his suggestion
that I should climb upon the engine
from the front of the cab and then
reach in to open the steam valve, on
the chance that (he escape of the hiss
ing steam would frighten the brute to
the point of fleeing from the train.
“I opened the valve —the jaguar never
moved.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
™ “I then reached a heavy iron wrench
and threw it at the beast with all my
strength. It struck him upon the head,
but h!Wi<l not stir. I was startled.
Olimbing-t* the fancied security of the
top of the cab I poked him with a long
handled rod, but I could see no sign of
life. v
“After a elosAvatcli I deseenod to
the floor of the on And opened the fur
nace door to have more light. The ja
guar was dead. There was a hole
through his head caused by the lucky
shot from my Winchester. He had
walked to the tender in a daze and
died there.
"I blow the whistle vigorously. It
was a welcome sound to the tradition.
The brakes were speedily fole:\ed.
The fireman came scrambling back: l
opened the throttle and slowly the train
went up the incline toward Porto Cor
tez.
“At a little after 10 o'clock that night
the whistling of No. 13 approaching
with her load of bananas summoued
the crew of the Breakwater, whose
captain congratulated the officials of
the Honduras Railroad on the remark
able expedition of their fruit service.
But when he saw the nine feet of ja
guar stretched out In my tender and
heard the story of the difficulties of the
run, he remarked that the railroad offi
cials should pass a vote of thanks to
me upon the success of the record trip
of the road.”—Youth’s Companion.
Tlic Vflluo of Books.
Of all the needs a book has, the
chief need is that it lv readable. —An-
thony Trollope, autobiography, chap
ter xix.
Society is a strong solution of books.
It draws thi‘ virtue out of what is best
worth reading, as hot water draws the
strength out. of tea leaves.—Holmes,
•“Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.”
It Is chiefly through hooks that we
enjoy intercourse with superior minds,
and these Invaluable means of com
munication arc in the reach of all. In
the best books great men talk to us.
give us tlieir most precious thoughts
and pour their souls inlo ours.—Cliau
uing, on Self-Culture.
No book is worth anything which is
not worth much: nor is it serviceable
until it has been read and re-read, and
loved and loved again, and marked so
that you can refer to the passages you
want in it, as a soldier can seize the
weapon he needs in an armory.—Rus
kin, Of King's Treasures.
I have ever gained the most profit,
mnl the most pleasure also, from the
books which have made me think the
most; and, when the difficulties have
once been overcome, these are the
books which have struck the deepest
root, not only In uiy memory and un
derstanding, hut likewise in my affec
tions.—Hare, Guesses at Truth.
When all that Is worldly turns to
dross around us, books only retain
their steady value. When friends grow
cold, and the converse of intimates
languishes into vapid civility and com
monplace, these only continue the un
altered countenance of happier days
and cheer us wit hthnt true friendship
which never deceived hope nor desert
ed sorrow.—Washington Irving, Sketch
Book.
Cos Reverso Way of Ihe Truck.
To avoid danger of accidents the very
sensible suggestion has boon made
that automobilists should race on the
track with the right hand on the pole
instead of the left, as is usual in other
lines of sport. Louis It. Smith, of this
city, who offers the plan, truly says
that on almost all tin* racing machines
the seats for the drivers are on the
right-hand side, and that in driving
10_the left on a track, as is the custom,
the operator in passing a machine on
the.outside ibis to look clear across the
body of his follicle in order to figure
out his clearance room.
The same applies 1011011 an operator
is traveling around a track alone.
Seated on the right-hand side of the
car, he must necessarily guess liow
close his front wheels arc to the pole.
The construction /if the automobiles
will hardly permit of a shoft in the
seat, or steering gear, and for that
reason the suggestion is a timely
one.—Philadelphia Record.
A Live Museum of Dress.
A Hue de la I’nix magnate is think
ing of opening a sort of live museum
of dresses, says the London Telegraph.
In galleries, to which a few privileged
visitors would lie admitted by special
invitation, the couturier’s latest crea
tions would be exhibited on the persons
of a numerous staff of “mannequins.”
The latter, of course, the young ladles
who usually show off dresses before
customers. Tlie couturier explains that
a specially large staff, providing a
“complete assortment of figures,” will
be required for tlic purpose. That is
to say, it would include a slim 4 j)ut
well-developed “mannequin” for “cos
tumes de sport,” another with shoul
ders suitable for setting off ball
dresses, a third familiar with the
special stage walk and deportment and
so on. The expert “living dummy” is
the envy of ordinary shop girls, as
she gets on an average $lO a week,
her board—that is to say, luncheon
and dinner—and four dresses a year,
made in the establishment in which
she is employed.
An Esquimaux Arrow.
An Esquimau arrow ol’ walrus ivory,
found imbedded in the breast of a
healthy Canadian gray goose shot near
Spokane, is on view in a store in that
city. No arrow of that sort was ever
seen in Spokane before. The bird had
evidently carried it thousands upon
thousands of miles from the Far North,
where it was shot by some Esquimau.
fit © I LD r\E N’SiM
ilipi£iSUl\E HOUiX
HlKh Title.
Scarlet frock and golden curl—
Such a very little girl—
Bessie wanders up and down
Where the seaweed lines are brown,
Something plainly on her mind.
Something she would like to iiud.
Now. whatever it can be
Bessie's seeking in the sea?
So 1 ask the little maid.
And she answers, half afraid:
“Sir, high tide has come and gone;
Where were all the strings tied on?”
—The Delineator.
Two Easily Mailt* Toys.
tt 1 AfrSS
ft \\rM
yCcffl?CX£P
To make the dandelion juggler stick a
short piece of straw through a pea,
then place the pea on the end of a dan
delion grtem and blow; It will dance
about in the air without falling away
from the stem.
To make a red rover, get a good
sized cork and stick through it a sharp
horseshoe nail and place three feathers
in the top. Throw it by grasping the
PURITAN PUNISHMENT PUZZLE.
i'iinl two oHicpi's who took part in the proceedings.
end of one of I lie feathers. It will al
ways fall point first, like an arrow or
spear, and stick in anything that is not
not harder than wood.
Thy Itutterfltes.
Two butterflies cut out of tissue
paper fly about as if alive, set in mo
-tion by a fan. They livid on the fan.
play in the air, descend on a flower—in
short, imitate real butterflies to per
fection. All that-is needed to make
such butterflies is colored tissue paper
THE BCTTEUKLIES.
and a pair of scissors. Fold the paper
and cut the shape of the butterflies, as
shown in the circle of our illustration.
Fasten the butterflies to a long hair
with the help of a diminutive piece of
wax. Tie this hair to another which is
fastened to your head likewise with
wax, as shown In ihe illustration.
Throw the butterflies in the atr with
the left hand and move your fan un
derneath them to keep them in the air.
It is very amusing to have a bipntu of
artificial flowers on which the butter
flies can alight, only to fly away at a
motion of the fan.—New York Tribune.
Trick of the .lumping? Frog.
Here is anew and amusing experi
ment which any one can try, as the
only materials required are a tumbler,
a cork, some cardboard and a small
piece of paper.
If you place some cardboard over a
glass filled with water you will notice
after a little time that it has become
raised, especially in the middle. If no
y— —-
such change has taken place, the rea
son is either because the riui of the
glass was not entirely dry or because
the cardboard does not completely
cover its surface, and, therefore, be
fore beginning the experiment atten
tion should be paid to these two points.
You may next place on it a small
cork, intended as a seat for a little
frog, that you can easily cut out of the
paper. After a few minutes the card
board will become depressed as the
result of moisture, and this quick
transformation will cause it to expand
so greatly that the frog and cork will
he sent flying into the air.
This simple trick is becoming a
favorite in many homes, and never
fails to evoke a good deal of laughter.
New York Herald.
Honc.t Little Diels.
In all my life 1 never saw so honest,
a little eat as our Dick. He not only
never stole himself, hut he would not
allow any other eat to steal if he could
help it. The dear little fellow, how
ever. was strongly tempted once, and
came very near to losing his good
name.
One day the cook carried out a pall
of nice little frost fish, and set it
down in the yard. Dick was there.
Dick always was near by when there
were good things to eat. The cook
went hack into the house, and I):ck
sat down to wall for her return; and
two of His especial friends were at the
window upstairs to see what “honest
lltlle Dick" would do!
The cook was a long time coming
back to dress the fish; ami .all Ihe while
Dick kept watch—now on the pall,
now on (lie kitchen door. At last lie
went somewhat nearer to the pail,
then nearer, then nearer, Ah! frost
fish smell so good. Dick's little nose
almost touched them! And then lie
sat down and cried at the top of his
voice for cook to return quickly and
save Him from becoming a thief!
Still she did not come. At last Dick
-put his fore paws on the edge of the
pail. Then he looked at t lie kitchen
door and But the door
did not open. So'‘gfcts}'4,v, softly, a paw
reached down into the But. lie
fore it had gone down as far Tig, the
fish, it came hack with a jerk emptjT
and its owner ran around the corner of
the house where lie could not see or
smell those nice frost tisli any more.
He did not want to lie a thief: and we
believe that the little fellow never
came so near it again.—Little Folks.
VejjotiiblcH Whittled.
If the reader ever amused himself
by constructing a turnip lantern he
must have observed liow readily the
vegetables yielded lo his knife. Tur
nips, carrots and apples are capital
things for the youthful sculptor to
exercise his skill upon, and with pa
tience he may succeed in turning out
some very interesting objects.
We have seen a bouquet of imita
tion flowers, formed of carrots, beets
and turnips, Ibat presented a most
natural appearance. A chrysanthe
mum may lie carved out of a carrot, a
camellia out of a small white turnip,
and a damask rose out of a beet. Other
natural objects may bo Imitated in
carved fruits and vegetables by an
ingenious lad, and il' lie lias a taste
for the grotesque lie may try his plas
tic skill on caricatures of his friends.
•TapaiiAgo I’t'flrage.
Peel's were first created in Japan in
1884. There are already 778, including
11 Princes, 34 Marquises, 8 Counts
and 363 Viscounis.
Greatness.
IV.oated Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Kating a “trusty” pie.
He put in a million
Amt pulled out a billion,
And said, “What a great boy am I!” 1
—Life, M
Careful Man.
“Docs your husband ever lose liia
temper?”
“No; ho it in such constant
use it has no chance to get lost.”
Hath Unsuccessful.
Stella—“ Mabel tries to keep it a se
cret that she is engaged.”
Bella—“ Yes, and Clara tries to keep
it a secret that she isn’t.”—New York
Sun.
lie Know.
Teacher—“ What is a blotter, Tom
my?"
.Tommy—“lt’s something to hunt
while the ink gets dry.”—Los Angeles
Herald. .
Up a Tree.
“Why doesn’t it drop, inn?’*
“Patience, ray child, perhaps it isn’t
ripe yet.”—New York Journal.
His Symptoms.
Mr. Newlywed—“ How did you know
I really loved you?”
Mrs. Newlywed—“ Oh. you acted So
—so sort of foolishly.”—Philadelphia
Record.
Had Ills Doubts.
“And so you have a little baby at
your house. Is it a hoy or a girl?”-
asked a neighbor.
“Mamma thinks it’s a boy, but I be
lieve it’ll turn out a girl. It’s always
crying about nothing,” answered the
little boy.-Tit-Bits.
A Commercial Success.
“Do you think there is any prospect
of inventing a flying machine that will
he commercially useful?”
“Certainly,” answered the aeronaut.
“I have one which is bound to make
money. All you have to do is to get
people to pay for the privilege of seeing
it go up.”
Precaution.
“I hope that people will say tlie
world is a little better because I lived
in it," said tlie intensely serious young
man.
“Well," answered the cold-blooded
politician, "the best way to arrange
that is to employ somebody to write
your biography now, so that you can
overlook the transaction.”
deceptive.
“Dey oughter pass a law,” said Hun*
gry Higgins, nursing his leg, ‘‘ter com
pel people ter call deir dogs by appro
priate names.”
“What’s de matter now?” inquired
Dusty lihoads.
"Why, a woman down de road said
if 1 didn’t get out o* her yard she’d
call ’Fido.' O’ course I laffed. Don
she called Fido and Fido didn't do a
ling. He was a big brindle bull.”—<
Philadelphia Press. ~ '
Chopping Him Off,
“By Jove, Grimshaw!” chuckled Lap
dad. “I’ll have to tell you the—ha, ha!
—funny thing my little boy said this
morning. He looked right up at me,
and " ’ -
“Sorry, I.apdad, but I am out just
now," interrupted Grimshaw. “Oome
j around some time when 1 am in, will
| you':"— New York Journal.
Scientific Kxactitufle.
| “And the voltaic current,” continuecl
the lecturer, "was the discovery of
Volta, and its development is a com
paratively recent achievement of sci
ence.”
A still, small individual hoisted him
self to a chair in the rear of the
hall.
"Hold on there, Professor! What
about the earlier discoveries of Noah?"
“I don’t understand you, sir."
“Then brush up! Didn’t Noah make
the ark light on Mount Ararat?”—Bal
timore News.
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