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AN ENGINEER’S-STORY
His Sti*®.o q& on &
Southern Railroad.
An Incident of the War in Which a Prom
inent Confederate Figured
Over in Jersey City one day last week,
says “Halston” in the New York Times,
two or three locomotive engineers sat
talking over strange experiences, and
this was the story that one of them told:
“I was a young man working on a South
ern railroad as a fireman when the war
broke out. Before the war was over I
got an engine of my own; but before I
was regularly promoted the engineer of
my train fell sick all of a sudden and I
was ordered to take the engine out my
self. I shipped a brakeman to do my fir
ing, and started away at 6 o’clock in the
morning, pulling one passenger and
half a dozen freight cars. There wasn’t
any fighting along my line, but there was
a deal of bud feeing everywhere, and
lots of lawless deeds Were being commit
ted. The track on this road hail been
torn up in two places only a week before,
and there was a good bit of talk about
trainwreekers and the like. At about 8
o’clock at away station I got a telegram
from headquarters to drop all my cars
and hurry right on to the end of the line
with only my locomotive and tender. It
was a queer order, but I knew that it
was official and I made ready to obey or
ders, when a little man with a brown
slouch has, who did not look as if he
weighed over a hundred pounds, climbed
up into the cab and said to me that he
wished I would let him ride in there
with me, he was so anxious to go forward
as far as he could. I told him that my
orders were to let nobody ride, and'ex
plained that I didn’t think I could let
him go. ‘Don’t you ekpect me?’ he
asked. I told him T didn’t. ‘lt will be
all right,’ he insisted, but when I asked
him what was Jris mime and what was
his business he couldn’t be induced to
tell me. ‘Then it’s all up,’ said I; ‘l’ll go
right along without you.’ Then he sug
gested that he was willing to pay me
well for letting him remain aboard, but I
wasn’t taking any chances, and Hold
him so. I was only waiting till my fire
tOftp attended some business that he
hid,gone down th^df^ theq
I was going to .shoot aheaoand leave
everybody behind? You ought to Lave
seen the sparks in that
‘You needn’t wait for your helper,’ he
in rimt 9’ qnjet tone that had a
whole battlefield in its very quietness.
‘You needn’t wait for your fireman. I’ll
do his work. Go ahead 1” I looked at him,
wondering whether or not he was crazy,
when he calmly took out a shiny pistol and
tapped gently on one of the brass rods of
the cab seat, and he rcjieatcd once more,
‘Go ahead’’ I was knocked cleanout.
■What could the stranger mean? That
sparkle in his eye grew brighter and
and brighter, and seemed fairly to dance
like a diamond under the sun. ‘Do you
understand?’ ho inquired in the quiet
tone that pierced me like a bullet. ‘Go
ahead, J say.’ 1 went ahead. On, on.
and on wo dashed, through the fields
and forests and by the villages, stopping
nowhere, my passenger—l felt that he
was a madman ke ping a close watch
on me all the while. I was scared. That
pistol was still in bis hand, and like the
little hand of a watch its rat-a-tat-tat on
the brass rod kept counting off the seer
ends and the minutes till I grow almost
crazy myself. 1 was rattled. A sort of
film kept coining Worn my ayes. Unsaid
not one word, but I felt that his search
ing gaze was on me nil the while. And
finally 1 could stand it no more. There
was a ni'h of blood to my head, I stag
gered and fill- with the town I was
bound for just insight. What 1 remem
ber next was a buea of voices over me as
I lay in a doctor’s office. Aside from a
nervous shock 1 had suffered nothing.
My engine had brought me into town all
right, and had come to a) alt at the sta
tion as gently and aimably as any old
family horse. The man who had rode
<lown with ive had known enough to
govern her, but he had waited at die
depot after arriving only long enough to
tell a bystander that 1 was in need of
help in on the engine’s floor. A week
after 1 learned the reason for the strange
order that had been given me to hurry on
with my locomotive and no cars, and 1
learned too the name and the mission of
my pwwnger. A telegraph operator had
>Auad«mi. My disp*teh shuuM have
read- 'Take on tittle man with brown
■touch hat; drop all cars and rush for
ward with no stops. ’ The operator had
«nrrlcsaly left off the first phrase about
’the little man with bream slouch hat,’
»»d given me only the last part of the
ovden The man? He was Alexander
11. Stepiens. mid he had important war
information—information that he had
been W illing to trust re nobody tine. He
apologized to me afterward for his strange
•rtioms but lie said In felt that only in
KUs h away could he ever m.-iiutge to make
me go on, far he didn’t know what the
real text of my order* wae :*n«l hr was
•Thud to ask tor fear that he might find
tm : either unfriendly or um rust wort by.
Threw were day* when evervbody was
wsprrted-, you knew,*'
The Vinted State* tats <1 620,4 M, 000
bodirU of oat* last '* -U
How Home Artiste fih«»
One can live cheaplyior the reverse In
New York, a* l.<enndet Richardson shows.
He relates the fact that many unmarried
artiste, have rooms epemngdout of then
studios making arrangement for the
sweeping, washing and allfthat sort of
thing with the janitors of the buildings
in which their quarters are situated. The
milkman comes in the morning* and leaves :
his little bottle of .he best milk, the bak- ;
er comes around with the muffins and the
janitor’s boy runs out to get the other
supplies for the day. When the man in
the house is ready for his breakfast, he
simply goes and cooks it, and there isn’t
anybody to find fault with for making
the coffee too strong or doing the steak
too much. One of the profession who ;
makes a large income was found im- ,
mersed in the duties of the kitchen, and I
apparently enjoying himself. He was
covered over with a large white apron,
and his sleeves were rolled up above his
elbows displaying a pair of brawny and
well-shaped aims, while in his mouth
was the regulation artist’s black pipe.
At that particular instant he was finish
ing up the luncheon, which a few min- !
utes later the party sat down to demolish. ,
It was a very nice affair, consisting of !
consomme in cups, broiled oysters, a ten
der fillet of beef, black coffee, cheese and
hard crackers. At Delmonico’s it would
have cost $2 or $3. In the artist’s little
suite of rooms the total outlay Was less
than fifty cent®, and the host, who has a
genuine liking for the preparation of eat- ;
aides, enjoyed the pleasure”of doing the
cooking beside. Richardson says furth- !
er:
I was surprished to hear my artistic i
friend tell the other day how many peo- •
pie of high and tow degree live in this
way imiNew York. He declared that
three out of five of the painters car
ried on this existence in a more or less
modified form, some of them keeping a
servant to run errands and do the menial
part of the housekeeping, while many
others did it, all themselves. Some of
have them elaborately gotten up flats in
which they live in great style, but the bulk
of them carry on their existence in sets of
rooms opening out of their studios. j
That, however, is not a fair example of '
the bohemian sort of thing at its best in !
New York. Eben Plympton, the actor,
used to run a pleasant little flat down in
Jwenfoqmth street, where hejj Righted
frjends and treating them
to luncheons? or SU PB££> oThisl
own preparation? 1 never could’ bring ’
myself to thllik Eben a good actor, but |
they do say he is a first-class cook, and ‘
perhaps that is the direction in which ’
hi 1 genius lies. At. any rate, his !
rooms were the resort of tots of people [
who know what good eating is, and who 1
always appeared to be very glad, indeed,
to have an invitation to a feast made
ready by their host himself. Hillary
Bell, a well-known painter who diversi
fies his professional career by writing a
portion of the time for newspapers and 1
magazines, also lives by himself, doing
all his own cooking and oftentimes enter
taining his friends. He was telling me i
the other day bow in the early days of ;
his career, when. J|c used to be sometimes i
’hard up for money, he found he could •
live in really excellent style upon this 1
system at a total outlay of about $3 a
week—this amount, of course, covering j
only the cost of the raw materials and !
not including rent. Ko it will I e seen !
that a man who enjoys puttering around ,
at cooking and all that kind of thing!
may combine thorough pleasure with j
complete economy.
Grew Kleh on Rat-Traps.
John MeMahal, a year ago, lived in a !
desolute little shanty near Twenty-sixth ;
street. His subsistence was obtained by !
the labor of bis two daughters and the
sale us some little rat-traps which he
made. Finally he was taken sick and ;
was az 1 invalid, as well us old and weak j
and destitute. Dr. Samuel Womly at
tended him. and nu his recovery obtained
a passage to Chicago for the three.
Nothing was heard of hint again until
several days ago, when a well-dresaed
man and two handsome young ladies
eSUed at Dr. Woody’s office on West
AN alnut street. The trio provezi to lx*
John McMahal and his daughters. As
the old num shook his former benefactor
by the hand he told, in a few words, the
story of bis good fortune. He had soon
found em|doymrat in Chicago, and had
so far recovered his btallh as to be able
to eaxn a goo«l One day he met a
wealthy gentleman and exhibited bis
little trep. which be had applied for a
The following day a tirm of
I which thr wealthy man was a member,
bought the invention for $5,000 cash ami
als per cent, royalty. He returned to
Louisville several days ago. and has rent
ed a neat little cottage near the scene of f
his former misery j
JvarfteL
Satiafied Wiltr the Aasertiea.
W'ifre -“The larder is empty."
Husliand “80 is my poekvt-bobiE-”
Wife— “The r.*ai is gone.”
Husband “So wmy credit."
Wife- “We have no flour in the house.* 1
Husband—“ And I have no momy*.’’
Wife (csnphautal'y)—“Well we can’t
starve.” •
Husband?rehevetlj— "Thank gtndntXK.
I was afraid wc should have to.*—t
IJrizrva.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CVRIOUS.
’ A resident of Los Angeles, Cal., has an
‘ affection of the-eyes by which he is made
■ to see the same . object multiplied 1®
■ times.
! Seventeen thousand Hessian soldiers in
, all came to America. They had their
I own officers, the chief Os whom were
1 Generals Riedesel, Knyphausen and De
! Heister.
In 1659 two Quakers were hanged' in
Boston, A. woman had been sentenced
to die with them, but was reprieved on
condition of her leaving the colony. Her
lame was Alary Dyer., Next year she re
turned to Boston and was executed.
A fruit-grower in Pomona, Cal., has a
! dozen apple trees upon which are to be
i seen three distinct crops of fruit! The
! first crop is ripe, the second as large as
hen’s eggs and the third as large as a
marble. The trees blossomed for a fourth
crop, but did not fruit.
The food of Burmese peasants includes
almost all kinds of reptiles, the grab of a
ball-rolling beetle, a kinds of ant which
constructs nests of leaves in treetops
' (eaten in and hill rats. Tbe last
j named exist in such hordes that their
1 consumption is almost a necessity to pre
-1 vent the rats from eating the Burmese.
A wonderful and little known flower
has been on exhibition at lhe Philadel
phia Horticultural Society’s rooms. It is
called the moonflower, and blooms in the
evening. From a small bud one inch
! and a quarter in diameter, comes a beau
. tiful flower four inches irgdiameter. The
. development requires less than an hour,
j and the buds can be seen opening. - !
' At Pau, where many men and women
with light hearts and heavy purses go in
winter, it is not unusual to see a person
with a pair of skates in one hand and a
sun-umbrella in the other. The ice is
found on a small lake that lies deep in a
hollow, and there is good skating on the
lake, while round about Pau j>eop]e are
promenading in sunshine as warm as that
of October.
A French writer has described a curi
ous phenomenon in a very in-
I telligcnt parrot, the bird’s eyes invariably
i becoming red by the contraction of the
■ iris on the appearance of a little boy for
whom an extraordinary affection has
been acquired. Flashes of red appear in
moments of anger, but the noticeably ?
lasting effect is only produced by the joy '
df this particular cmm ! s*presence.
ran away. The
his vehicle, but not badly hurt., and after '
he had pulled himself together he started
on after the horse. Pretty soon he en- i
countered three stalwart tramps, each ,
one of whom had a club. As they ob- |
structed the road he was forced to halt, ;
when one of them said :
"Being as you are a well-known phil- ;
1 anthropist, mebbe you’d like to donate a j
’ couple of dollars toward an orphan asy- !
him.”
’ “Where is it?”
“Out near Chicago. 1 don’t just re- I
member the exact dimensions of the ‘
i building, nor the number of little kids as j
| is cryin! their blessed eyes out fur their
; dead parients, but 1 kuow they is sadlj
1 in need of money. Ain’t it so, boys?”
“You bet I” replied his two compan
! ions.
' “If I give you $2 will the orphans ever :
aer it?l’ asked the Detroiter.
"Will they! Won’t we purceed right
i there and give it to ’em afore Satrjday
i night? You don’t toko us fur a passel of
• gi nts without feelin'% do ye?*’
“If he does,” said one of the others, as
h • spit on his hands and gripp'd his club
afresh, “I must clear my reput ashun. I’ve
alius been* known as the friend of the ;
orfnna. and I can’t ’low nobody to throw
out hint® that I’m a liar and a hypocrite!”
“And it's the same with me!” added
the third.
The Detroiter handed over two silver !
dollar*, and the tall trainn received them
with:
“Now, that’s right. When a man |
won’t give to the orphans you kin eot ;
him down as too mean to live. On behalf
of the leetle angels, many of which can’t
remember tlieir paw nor maw, I thank
you. If yon ever <aome our way stop and |
see the children and hear them bless your
name. Tom, you and Jim git out o’ the i
road and let the public philanthropist;
pass on. Pm surprised that you’d <tand \
in a gentleman's way! Good night, old
fi'l. Heaven will surely reward yon'.”— ■
Dctivit Free Prtse.
A Valuable Invention.
i You are a stockholder in the Gross Cut I
R.*ulkmul. sir?” he adked.
' “I am,” said the woi klmlder.
I “1 have a new device for registering !
money receipts that lays over Any——" ;
'Yf-*, sir, Lui our prewnt svstem is j
perfectly satisfactory. Our mmdedtor? '
j cannot——"
“Excuse me, but my invention has I
, rothiutf to do with conductora. ft’s a ;
protection against presidents and *mper- ■
1 intemleats Shall I take a chair and ex- i
1 plain it to ym»*“
"If you will 1» ro kind,” said the i
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