-.., ghostly-on,
. “tonal Ire sh t "M
,thorohtfae a splat a",
lulled
Form
or»
loot-we rniuht reach Jersey City.
. re back
1 '5 Show Express
. and endeavoriug
of Ito loot run.
, ng in the small red caboose in tho
rumbling -
g through .a blind fog of snow with a
01pm at our heels, gave an un-
for one. did not
The drummer who
train at Newburg sat
, of the big freight train,
ll] Rotation, that l,
‘ lob-lo the least.
_ boarded the
W]! on a pile of grips, which aflol’d—
a softer sent than the hard,
on benches strung along the sides
(of the car. A couple of shippers anx-
iously discussed
, their stock to mnrket without having
“ M half frozen to death.
At the entrance of Joe, the brakrman,
however, the glum party seemed to thaw
stones. He swung duvm off the roof of
y the last box car. and in through the door
‘ ill cheery, wholesome sort of fashion
t warmed us at our».
”106,” said one of the '~lli[lpl'.’i’8, “be we
I to reach Jersey Filly before
“in,"
“Isn't this good enough for you to live
to? How’d you like to hr out braking
tonight!"
”’Taint no snap, that's a fact," the
Illipper assented.
.“No, you bet it ain’t,”
ivoly. ”But this ain’t a patching to what
his sometimes."
Something in the manm-r in which Joe
Wily filled his cob pipe, took a bit of
otick from the floor, poked it into the fire
and lit his pipe slowly and thoughtfully
Indicated that a story was coming.
"Strange," said Joe at last, with a
ruminant look into the fire and a long
steady pull at his pipe, "somehow to-
uht reminds me of the day in January
two years ago: That was when we
brought Johnny Haines home. Guess
”I must ’a known Johnny," he added,
turning to the shipper.
“Nope. Heard of him.
What was the story?”
“Not much of a one,” Joe replied depre-
catingly. ”Justa hrakeman’s yarn, only
it's a little out of the common run. The
day I ever saw Johnny Halnes I
thought him the handsomest lull [ever set
my eyes on. He came up on No. 0 on her
trip. We used to meet often up and
cm: the road and got to know each
other pretty well. He was one of those
lldawith a fresh, pink and white com-
pletion and a jolly laugh that made you
map to him at once. He was straight
[ii-dang, and when he used to stand
' ' 0 top of the car, the train going
oral
s
said Joe, decla-
Go on, Joe.
, hour and he not thinking
,1 ' g at all,t'here wasn't a girl
‘Lf‘t'he road that hadn't njsmile for
as he went by. The lad was anxious
‘ stick and worked hard, and. as he
, -hionouth pretty well closed, it was
longtime before we found out anything
.. who he was. He had little ways
“9 him that made us think once in
lo that he hadn't been brought up
- work, and his hands at. first were as
_- and 'dite as a girl's. flue of the
, lows told mastery of how Johnny
"' . caged too good faniily. but got kicked
' ~ for some reason or other; but we al-
ya thought he made it up, and, in fact
:aever did find out his story until that
lit. Imean the night We took him
. he."
oostopped, pulled vignromly at his
E for afew minutes. hilnlml rather
lpiciously several tinln'e. and finally
l lath"? hunky voice m-ul on:
i tseems that the lud'snnm» wasn’t
l nee at all. He tool. illlli to Conceal
own. H15 first name really was
way, though, and, an (Inn “'qu what
1 \ body called him, llu’ lust didn't
l to make so much dillvrenrv. When
teams on the roml he was a little;
twenty. and his open. boyish way-I
someof the fellow:- guy hum and
rich on him at first. liut it didn't
, hem long to find out that he had
. of mettle. A gang of up. were lay~
-und jhe Albany round house one
i siting fora train to be made up,
“ill Lawson began to nag him and
, . . couldn’t get a light out of him.
they had some trouble down the
ad when Bill bad a fli'rtfli to fight
9. had refused. He tried to keep
’; ill's way, but whru Hill said he
Id, Johnny turned mnl walked
I y upto him and said quietly: 'Ynu
t back.’ I never kmw just how
one but Bill moth: wuu- mrt ofa
t next moment the big hulk-
' was lying on the grmlud. Hill
I n toknow what hit him. But
“Johnny with such asavage
Salad without genuine pluck
' ve turned feather. But when
. sprawling on the ground a
awe found out that Johnny
ll. tillo boxer. The-re was an
I no la Bill's eye when he got up,
.1 got close up to Johnny. all of
l he flaohod a big jucllkuife he
., How he got It out of his
“l mid tell. He made a
Johnny dodged cleverlyand
‘ ungraud his face. He was
3 char than it talus to tell it,
life out of hlrn. We started
-.~ show, but when we found that
Billaethat he could do no
the knife. we let them light
lastly held up his hand for
Johnny then m up. After
untold, Johnny made him
and, though he didn't show
‘ ~ afterward Bill come to
‘ w of kin asthomtof
I
very far from Albany
”:hat runs down to the.
.htat the sonar of it was a
It happened that on this
9 eyed little glrl
‘ ' , l tho hon along
' a . [in with no. hot
f t; \‘ . a to the water
% which the
« of ca. faulty
s~ ”She
with;
W'.
iv *"3
.. w; --4‘ws._..- C I
i“
‘
nearby
of w .
hm cast Illroubuprlght
oil to
“I III the outside airm "It a.
not knowing precisely why. we
ly in silence or muttered as no
monosyllnbic ulna-nation as to
four hours behind time, and
of no we knew was the
likewise behind
to make up oomo-
the prospects for getting
. as soon as she saw me and my lill'l'
””3? ass i halo
$.22.
”I.
a pas-oddb- farm lunar-that
Iiame’a genie-.7»; slur- Mr:
him. We used to chill! Julia”
[00d deal over the matter, but we could
a'tgotmuch out of him.
Sunshow. through the engineer or
”nobody. though. we found out that
Johnny was going to marry the girl if he
oonld got his fallwr to consent. He
couldn't very well many on the salary he
was getting as a raw brakeman.
“Things ran along through the summer
and Into the fall, and we noticed that
Johnny had got very quiet and round
like, and was evidently brooding over
something. At last we found out that
Johnny had been promised a raise. and
that along about the holidays he was-to‘
he made a passenger bran-man. and then
was going to get married. There
wasn’t one of us that wasn’t glad of it,
orwho envied him his good luck. The
fall stretched way into the winter, I re-
momber, and my, wasn’t it beautiful
weather! You’d stand up on top of a
car, and as the truin wound along the
river shore mile after mile, just drinking
in the air and view. Braking is a hard
life, with lots of danger and pretty allm
pay. But those days we’d forgot all
about the hardships and everything else.
Johnny was on the same lruin with me
and happy as a lark, thinking how he
would marry and go up to Albanytb five."
it; in.
I used to notice, though, that everylonce W
brow would cloud up, as
in a while his
1 thinking of something that
f he was
hurt him.
"Such weather couldn‘t lust, though,
and when the end came. it came with a
squall. The thermometer dropped forty
degrees, and a cold, driving rain that had
set in the afternoon turned toward night
intoa drifting, blindlng snow. We had
a big train that night, and with the snow
and the sleet and the cold it gnve us no
and of trouble. She parted three or four
times, going not more than twenty miles,
and it was cold, dangerous'work slipping
along the top setting brakes or getting
own to make couplings. The wind
howled and whistled and the snow cut
your face, like going through a hedge.
It was dark and the lanterns didn’t show
plain through the snow, and everything
seemed to go wrong. Several times we
thought we were stalled in the drifts, but
we'd uncouple and send the engine and
two or three cars through the drift, and
then buck up and tako tho rent of the
train through. We'wanted to get through
to Albany, for the next day was a lay
off.
“Johnny and I fought like bearers
against the cold, and, I tell you. it was
tickllsh work. I felt more anxious about
Johnny than I did about myself, for I
was old at the business and he was new.
and I knew how easy it was for a sudden
jerk to send a man flying down lleiWeen
the wheels. But Johnny wouldn't listen.
He said he wasn't afraid. and just then
the whistle sounded ‘dowu lvrukesf We
were sitting in the caboose, shirt-ring
around a dirty little fire. I had frozen
three of my fingers, and I thought my
ears were frosted, too. You we the storm
came so sudden we didn’t have time to
get on any mufflers, and the mittens were
pretty thin. Well. we climbed out, and
Johnny ran on ahead. saying that he
was all right and he'd take the front.
The cars on top were as slippery on glass,
and we had almost to creep along from
one car to another to keep from falling
off, for she was running at u good place,
and the snow on the tracks made the cars
lurch and swing. I looked up, and
through the snow and tho dork l recog‘
nleed the landmark, and kin-w we were
nearing the water tank, win-n- .luhnny'a
girl lived. Just at that monwni the train
gaven frightful jerk.and I saw the engine
go rearing in the air. and about a bun-
dyed feet ahead i saw a lunlrrn swing
wildly in the air and go down. I went
flat on the car and hung then- for dear
life. We stopped in ten or twrnly yards
and l swung of! the car like mail. ‘Great
God, I thought, if that was .lohnnyl'
"Something made me fn-rl that he had
gone Ulllil'l' the wheels. and when l
crawled ahead a few curs llwl‘oe l found
him, lying all white and still. lie was
too rum-h stunned to say u word. We
picked him up and startc-d to carry him
to the hon-v where Jenny lin-d. “'1:
saw that the wheels had gone over both
legit—over one near the llllt'h and the
other llf'lOW the how. My. but be was a
game lad, for all the iurlurv of bringing
him up llu- hill couldn't u ring a word
from him. “‘0 knllf'hell at lln' door and
said that our of the ll“)! hull not hurt,
and that the ehglue hnd jumprd the
track. A white llltlu 'lil't‘ rumo- II) the
door and looked at us a moment, and then
Jenny
shrieke-l out:
“ ‘lt's .lolmuyl'
"lint she didn't fulnl or cry. or any on
other word. We just curried him in and
put him on the bed, and alu- iouk Charge
of him. ”no of the boys rode over to get
adoclor, but when he come he saw at
once that It waa no use. it WIN only a
question of how long Johnny could aur-
Vlve the shock. lie lay tlu're very quiet-
ly, and finally, when the llm'tur'l rimmi-
nation we: finished, ‘he nlllll.’
"1- there any show. old own 9'
"i couldn't reply. but ill! know an, I
turned my head away what the answer
was. Johnny was quiet for a moment,
and then pulliugJenny's hand with his
own weakly. he said In a bushy voles:
“ ‘l.lttle girl, i want to go home.‘
"And that he Isolated on nll the night.
Wouldn't thlnk that he Would bo olive
hythe morning. But he was, and we
decided to pllt him on board the morning
espreaa The wrecking train had throws
the engine out of the road and cleared
the track, and when the express came
down we flagged her and took Johnny
aboard, All Jenny would tell us was
that his father lived in New York. but
gave the conductor an alllirons for a
wire. “I
"We didn‘t think that he would last
the journey, and about half way down;ho
suddenly clutched Jenny's hand hard,
and then lay back still. The little girl
threw hemlfupoa kins sobbing an if her
heart would break. but it didn't do any
good. Poor Johnny was gone."
, Joe paused a moment and looked into
the fire.
“Well," he said, "in cut it short, when
we got into Jersey City Johnny's father
was there. it dlde’t take anon than a
glance at hls clothes and an portly
iagtotell an anathew a rich mas. o
sprang into the ear pad w have
yum Do an of the
‘l
x 4
murals: ‘
' Herald.
turban! a a little girl who sat t .
”hulls. sinusoid slowly:
‘9 ‘Is this- canyl'
“And then be
his arms and kissed her.
“I went to the funeral the next day.
Th; old man's hair was turned white.
an
was twenty ..
loaw him first. It seems that Johnny
all them-may he wuutwi. lie got wild
and in with it fllvtf. gang, and, to try to
curb him. his lather.
cashier. Johnny’s allowance wasn’t
enough, and be made it up out of tho
cash drawer. When it was discovered
his father made up the amount, and then
sent Johnny adrift. He never spoke to
him afterward, and whom Johnny. afterlt
yoar'a good munch on the road, appealed
to him for money l-nough to gct‘married
on, the old man returned his letter. I
found it in Johnny’s coat pocket the
morning we took him home.”
The train whistler! for a station, and
Joe,grabbing bis luntern,esc.lped into the
night and the falling mu_lw.~—.\'cw York
The Original Dime Novel Man.
The original dime novel mun is dead.
ho has not heard of Bundle? What
man of to-day has not ileulnimrd pieces
out of Beullle'a Dime Spunkor in his
schoolboy days! \Vho has not smuggled
Beadle'a novels into, his room and kept
himself out of mischief for many an
hour with tlwmf Though Beadle never
wrote a line in his life, no nntlmr’s name
was more familiar to a larger class of
readers than his a quarter of aceutury
ago. Such is the fortune of publishers.
They get the literary fame for what
others do.
A Constderate Wlfe.
She—l need a new dress.
i. lie-But you should take the hard times
Into consideration.
She—I have taken them into considera-
tion: that’s why i haven't said anything
as yet about the new but that is W go
with the new dress—Texas Sittings.
Effect of Cholly'a Appearance.
(:holly—J trust. Miss Sharpe. that you
don't think that when i met that dog I
ran away llocullsw—ulwvdowntime I was
afraid?
Miss Sharpe (generously-hill», no, in.
deed. if any one was scared it should
have been the dogwi'birago Record.
Kips one Downs of a Handy Man.
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\ $.11
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took her very quietly in
his face was as lined and fluid as
though he was uwuntlug a scaffold. lie
years older than the morning
was brought up, lilo: must hive, to have
who wnnawoaltlly ,
banker, got him a place in a store as ,
r
100 pairs Ladies’ Patent T
85 pairs Men’s Police Shoe
' 75 pairs Boy 's Lace, worth
Boston Hip Rubber Boots,
200 pairs Ladies’ Hand Turn, small sizes,
200 pairs}Lsdies’ Opera plain toe worth 3,
200 pairs Ladies’ Opera plain toe worth 2.00 at 1.50.
—-FOR—-
ANII :
8|:l‘.WASHlNIil0N STREET, SlllITH NlIIlWAlll.
100 pairs of Lonnsbury, Mathewson & Co.
100 pairs of Ladies’ imperfect machine sewed worth 3.50 at 1.50.
worth 4.00, at 1.00
00 at 2.00.
ip, worth 1.50, at,l.00.
100 pairs Misses’ Patent Tip Spring Heel, worth 1.50, at 1:10.
100 pairs Misses' Spring Heel, worth 1.25, at 90c.
100 pairs Childen's 83 to 10}, Patent Tip Spring Heel, worth 1.25, at 950.
3, worth 2 00 at 1.50.
100 pairs Men’s Goodyear Welt Lace Shoes, worth 3.50, at 2.00., sizes 5%, 6, 61}. 7.
50 pairs Men’s Congres and Lace, Cork Soles, sizes 9, 10 and
100 pairs.Meu’s Calf Blucbers, worth 2 50 at 1.50.
75 pairs Men’s Lace Picadilly and sqaure toe, worth 1.50 at 1.25.
80 pairs Boy’s Calf Button, sizes 11 to 2, worth 1.75, at 1.00.
{11, worth 2.50, at 1.35.
1.25. at 75c.
3.25 and plenty of them.
Men’s Storm King'fioots, 3 00.
lHElllIllIlE H. lIlSEN, '
8| WASHINGTONiSlNE
l,
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Short
VACATIONS
FOR “US" I'EIDI’LE
Washington, I). 0.
Via 01d l’olut l‘omforl. Va.
—700 mono or ova/ls TRAVEL—-
0n the lieautlful new alvauxslllpa of the
OLD DOMINION LINE
Affordlng ill-st and liven-alien.
These lrlimare Ideal. as a coneldrrahlo pur-
tlon lammle through the quiet waters of the
famous Ilenploa ltoedsaml Potomac River
and there is little likelihood of "Mlchums.
My...“
.Il‘Also tlckolsnn sale. with privilege of golag
or Morning by rail. .
Write for particulars of ihmr’aull other de-
lightful trips to
Pine I0. Berth liver. New York.
“syn. finillaorlen. Vice-President “3111.02.
aaa vou noise to
Florida
This
Winter?
"unseen and gohytlle
“CLYDE LIN E.’
as only steamship nae musing from
New York {direct to
Jacksonville. Fla”
Wu It
Charlooton. B. O.
MM'M-o. mm
0m! 1. m were.
0|! Dominion steamship Coapssy. -r
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NO. 3 GAZETTE BUILDING.
SLIPPERS. SLIPPERS.
1.0W0l1‘ll'l ll legglly of holiday Slippers ls unusually large and altrartlve for variety, quality and
o n' l um lll .lorrleaarthl toverohowala
1‘0wn.1 ‘l'ihyliufimit'l‘llufil‘lng fa: Iris:ill-ratyaxll‘s‘iip‘wdallcjnl‘i at pr‘lcooowll’l'lrlrlho reach of all'
not r v.- usafra.
Ti H! tn~ ll 1 ntlemen's Shoe .l on I leather
I‘illllrlili:{ill’m.at hiralfiilllltzr "‘N‘" & sous, ll‘luaet. with duulileneole.ma:d Swish
. f ' .
or go [inll'l’ll leathers in u'l the law-u and rorvwf styles. at 85.50.
(.‘ordurnu and f‘alf Hum are m knowmlm-d hr ill to be the most perfect “Hamlin”
styled and best Wearing line of Mines rwr slump in “crwalk,
ln imill:a',(‘ilma' nnd l'hlldrrn's Show we have adilrd to (:llf'flfllflhdy ieérgs and well
i hi i ' n no no 0 save-
mmniw“ ilylrn. [DUNSHUHL Mllllll Wig" & 00. 8 among which lsa to!
(‘alfrlhom at Milt! . lu'alSllmloll earth for serum d durabllli . 'lbls hoe l8 uneq
for wlnler “amend In \‘lt~ll)' popular. We alm curly a very no line of [110]." P
at all popular price And We would like in say Just a few
"0's words about our llnm of Fllpivvrs “roan show you the largest and best I.”
I no you err-r saw of Ladlrs', Mist-m0 and l‘hlldren'n flippers for dancing and houatwaal'. la
) e ‘ r. ‘ .
Suede, 1 atent Leather, hill and Satin Goods.
We make in onlcr all colors In
S] .II’I’I‘JII S A 1‘ l ) ( ).\ li‘()RD
0 match rmlnmrs. and uuaraou'o m and nail~f«('lllill. and lbrre Is one thing that we wiohtvol
in bear In u ind We an no! lo hr unlemvhl by anyone- In ”W mule. Our stock of goods
entirely new and our prIi-rs aunnllhgly low. A ful Illw of Trim” and Bar.
Olsen Brothers. No. 3 Gazelle Bulldln .
D l A M 0 N DS.
I}! l’()I{'I‘lill ) ll‘ldllllfl OI" I.)U'l‘ Y.
I have been succeaslnl in buying Diamonds that were im~
ported free of duty and cut in New ork; for out and finish are
superior to Diamonds cut m Europe. Those Diamonds were bought
be ore the diamond cuttor’s strike at a saying of ten per cent. on
cost, and will offer Diamonds to my customers this season for
less money than the some quality of goods can be bought for
elsewhere.
A. W. AUSTIN, THE lEAlIlNG JEWELEN,
as on smut. lllllllllll. colt 1%
BllllWN'S $3.00 SNllE.
and you will we not onlyls
Neal and Perfect Fitting Shoe.
But one in which the
Best llalerlal Is Used. Combining Durability and it'll
flaking it the best mo Seamless Bhoe la the marhot.
EVERY PAIR WARRANTED.
on:
and anninethsrnbeforspnrehadaganyotheuheafl
s. snowu’s,
-~ “commitment.
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’3 fine Shoes, a little imperfect,worth 4. 50, at 2.25. ‘
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