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A SONG OF FLEETING TIME.
When loVe was rich and young ; my * dear ,
And all the world was fait ; ,
'What musia beautWul and clear
Made summer It. the air.
The roses blushed around your .door ,
The sun htno trembled o'er your floor
And blessed you unaware
From dawn till eve , from fall till spring
Life offered you each royal thing.
Yes , you , who did not care
When love was rich and young , my dear ,
And all the world was fair.
When love was rich and young , my dear.
And all the world was fair , ,
It was a heavenly thing to hear
Your laughter bless the air.
To note your dainty ways , and mark
Your eyes make starlight of the dark ,
To know that everywhere
Men's hearts went with you , every one ,
Like , Aztecs following the sun
Whoso llecting left hcaien bare-
When love was rich and young , my dear.
And all the world was fair.
Now love is poor and old , my dear ,
And all the world grows gray.
There is no mublc left to cheer
The curfew time of day.
About your lonely door I see
Tiio b'.iaclo-.vs falling silently ,
Lilo brown leaves from the spray ;
Flown arc the roses anil the light.
Gay hearts have bidden you good night
And gene upon their way.
Now love is poor and old , my dear.
And nil the world grows gray.
Now love is poor and old , my dear ,
And all the world grow s gray.
Heart breaking is it but to hear
The laughter once bo gay ;
To mark your faded charms and know
The rose has had its time to blow ,
And joy to pass away.
One thing , one only , of the past
Abideth with you to the last ,
Your poet's song still holds you fast
And keeps you fair alway.
Now lo\e is poor and old , my dear.
And all the world grows gray.
-Elvira S. Miller in Louisviile CourierJournal. .
THE MAD LOCOMOTIVE ,
"A story of railroad adventure , eh ? "
"If you please , " I answered the vet
eran engineer , as we sat in the cool
shade to the east of a big Providence
roundhouse. I may say that Peter
Hank , the narrator of this exciting inci
dent , is well known by me and esteemed
as a man of truth by everybody who
knows him.
"I never had but one son. All my
boys were girls. But when little Bum-
side was born I tell you we vero happy.
Yet I never supposed that chap would
save my own life and lots of other pee
ple's. That's just what ho did , how
ever. You know I always run the ex
press. We got a big engine some years
ago on the road. She weighs more than
any machine wo ever used before. I
never liked her when I saw her in the
shop , that giantess , No. G13. She never
had any name. And that machine never
liked me. All because of this. " The
engineer took his pipe from his mouth
to look mo squarely in the eye. "I was
in the shop one afternoon just to look
her over. That's when they were paint
ing her up. The painters and varnish-
ers were crawling all over her.
"Of course she wasn't fired up. An
other engineer and I just were walking
round her huge bed } ' . I said : 'Jake ,
that critter will heat the first trip , and a
hot box on her will mean lots of woik.
I hope I may never be asked to run her. '
Well , sir , believe it or not , I know she
heard it and was mad. When I climbed
into her cab , just to look at her there , I
naturally enougli took hold of her re
verse lever. She threw that lever over ,
sir , quicker'n lightning , and caught my
leg just under the knee , taking out a bite
as big as a walnut. My ! How she pained
me ! It was weeks before my stiff leg
was all right. "
Then he resumed his pipe while that
soaked into me.
"Now , you newspaper men do not
take any stock in such things , I know.
But no railroad man would say I was a
fool if I thought hard of the machine.
And all railroad men have seen engines
act just as if they had spirits in them.
There ain't an engine on our road or any
other which will work as well for one
man as she will for another. Every en
gine has her favorites , for whom she will
do anything , and her enemies , to whom
she acts like a she demon. "
A fact , by the way , which the writer
has since verified on considerable inquiry
among locomotive engineers.
"Well , sir , if you believe me , that No.
643 hadn't been out o' shop a week be
fore the master mechanic sent forme
one night to take her. I remember I
was eating supper. It was my two days'
lay off. Little Burnside was sitting in
his chair beside me. He was just 8 years
old the Thursday before. It was a very
hot August night. \ was asked to put
the big engine through for a special.
There was a party of big fellows from
Washington who were returning from
the White Mountains. I was to drive I
'em down to Wickford Junction for
Newport.
" 'God help me , Susie ! ' I said to my
wife , pushing back my chair. 'I don't
know why , but I'd rather be killed by a
pistol shot here at home than to go. '
" 'You foolish fellow ! ' she replied.
'What ails you ? '
' 'I don't know , ' I said. 'But that
machine hain't been run a dozen times.
Besides she hates me. This is to be a
show off run , like lightning , and I know i
she'll kill us all. '
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"My wife she just rose up then. Being -
ing a good Christian church member an
I ain't , she exploded on me.
' 'Pete , I'm ashamed of you ! You're-
the best runner on the road , and this i.i
an honor. Do you want to get dis
charged and lose our daily bread ? God
will take care o' my husband. Herel
It's a hot night , and you'll be back by
II o'clock. Take the boy. He's always
wanted a night ride. '
"That got me. I just rose up. She
put on the boy's little cap and gave mo
his coat , and I went off , taking the boy.
I remember how he laughed. I carried
him over the rails in the dark yard on
my shoulder , and he kept patting my
cheek and kissing me till I boosted him
into the cab of No. 643. How proud he
sat up there on my box between my legs !
"Well , again , " continued Pete , rub
bing a fresh match on his overalls ,
"nothing occurred as we coupled on and
ran quite a while. We drew four Pull
mans besides the baggage car. Itwaa
Lot and dark.We . had.'tho right of way ,
bit were to approach'Wickford cautious ,
for there we should find the reffulw New
Xork express , which wo should overtake. *
No. 648 worked stiff , as I know she
would , but she was so big that when she
got started nothing could trouble hr
much , an3 she just tossed the load along
as light as afeather. .
"I ngticed that the throttle valve
worked hard when Iliad to shut off steam
once of twice slowing through a station.
Btill I could jerk her in and out well
enough with one hand. An ugly throttle
is a terrible thing , sir , though. For , you
see , a man can't be sure. Suppose you
couldn't shut off. Suppose your throttle
got stuck , full head on , going at fifty
milt's an hour , and you a-coming into a
station , for instance , even if there was
nothing standing there , I tell you , you'd
feel about as the Almighty would if the
earth got loose and he couldn't stop her. "
Then Hank puffed smokeless whiffs.
"Well , again , " he resumed presently.
The excitement of his o\vn memory had
brought the sweat drops to hir forehead ;
his pipe had gene out the third time.
' That throttle valve did stick on me !
That's just what did happen. We were.
I calculated , about eight miles from"
Wickford. Somehow , though , ther * ,
asn't any station to slow me up , ycfj \
h ad a feeling , an awful feeling , toofjjj |
I could not if I would shut lie - *
yek
'Pshaw ! ' I said to myself , and I ibr cj
with the boy's curly head with
hand. But my left hand kept
and trying that throttle harder *
harder. I couldn't stir her !
over and put my right
lever. I could not move
my box. " I seemed
frenzI sprang : : t
hands and all , uiy weight.
move a hair ! And the way
ing ! Probably we were flyir
miles an hour. I yelle/L-it
" 'Give us a han
"He knew it all in a
bled in from the tender
hands beside mine. , >
' 'Now ! ' I shouted. -
"We threw our weight
that old beast just shooU
jumped and jumped , as muc
'
'You can't shut off my wind ! '
" 'Pete ! ' cried the fireman ,
Wickford on tKe switch !
two miles more to live ! '
"Then we struggled like tw'
bulls. We pulled. Then we shoved.
We planted our feet and pulled and
shoved. We had no air brakes in them
days. But if we had , I vow I b'lievo to
have put 'em on would have knocked
out the cylinder heads or broke a , driving
rod , and sent us all to eternity.
"All this while there sat my pretty
boy , as calm , as laughing , because he
thought this was all play. But I knew
we'd all got to die , and I caught up the
boy. I held him , kissing him. It all
took but a moment. There , less'n a
mile ahead , stood the rear of the 'New
York' on our track at the station. I
could see her red light. You better
b'lieve I forgot all about the big men
behind. I was thinking , should I tlirow
out my boy into the darkness ?
" 'Papa , ' said Burnside. 'what makes
you look so ?
" 'Because , boy , we cn'fc stop the
engine. We're all going to be killed in
a minute , unless I toss you out there. '
" 'No , papa , ' said he , reaching out his
pretty hand. 'Let me try it. '
"Well , I did. I don't know why. I
was holding him , you understand. And
sir , the moment that child's hand struck
that throttle valve , she shut off as easy
as drawing your breath ! "
The engineer said he actually tumbled
over on his seat as if he had seen a mir
acle. The train slowed up in answer to
the brake whistle , and stopped just in
front of the station. The matter may
or may not have had any miraculous
element. The good mother urged the
boy's going. The behavior of the metal ,
one moment binding by heat or other
expansion , the next moment releasing
itself helped by the tremendous steam
pressure in the dome , is one of the many
well known curiosities of metal action.
"Would you really have thrown that
boy from the cab if she had not stopped ? "
I asked.
"Certainly. It would have been the
only chance of saving his life. I should
have chosen a bunch of green , growing
brush and landed him wifely up against
the bending branches. Then I should
have jumped myself. We always jump
when we can do uo more good here.
My fireman has three times saved his
life so. I have once , of which I'll tell
you some day. Good-by. Here's my
machine , just out of the yard. " Rev.
Emory J. Haynes in New York Ledger.
Sardou's Lucky Step.
Victorien Sardou , popularly called the
"journalist playwright , " was born in
Paris on the 7th of September , 1831. His
father was a teacher and the author of
elementar3r text books. Little success
met his efforts , and their early days
were days of privation and hardship.
Just over tlu'rty yearb ago , on a cheer
less wet night , he sought shelter from
the storm in a doorway in the neighbor
hood of the Medical School of Paris ,
Feeling utterly wretched and with
thoughts of suicide floating through his
mind , he moved away from the door
way which had afforded shelter to him.
A water carrier immediatel } ' took his
place , audibly remarking :
"Ah , iny friend , you do not know
when you are well off. "
He had scarcely uttered the words
when a block of granite fell from the
building and killed him. Sardou took
his deliverance from death as a good i
omen and set to work with renewed
energy , and is today the foremost and
richest of living playwrights , and a r ember -
ber of the academy. London Tit-Bits.
Over the Dessert. ' i
Freddy ( carefully rubbing the pretty i
bloom from hia bunch of grapes ) Say ,
Mr. Youngbee , do these grapes powdei ?
Mr. Youngbee ( fiance of Freddy's
mmtie } Why , no , my boy. What made
yea think of that ?
Freddy 'Caiise this rubs off j st
fba pink does from atmtia'a cneeka , j
Si&tdge.
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Register ait ]
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town.5 , north !
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Godard. squire
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LAND Oe !
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Notice is hereby tril
named settler has HleJ
to inakcilnal flvejcai" "
claim , and that said prd
Hegister or Heceiver at 1
urday. December liUth. r
FUANK P. NI ?
one of the heirs of Enod
ceased , forthe N. W. j .N |
H and N. W. Ji S. W. '
north of range 150 , wet !
the following witnessij
ous residence upon ,
land , viz : Archie fcpl
Charles S. Ferris. KichaJ
Cook , Meb. " "i'l S.j
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Notice is hereby jrlvcn"
naned settler has filed nci
to make final five-year pnf
claim , ami that said proof
Register or Receiver at Met
urday. December Cth. 1890. vij
SAUAH A DCNt ,
tormcrly Sarah A. Hurrtick , II E.
the S. " - N . W. H and \ \ . V2 S. W. \ _
10 , in town. 5. north ot ranire ' " > , VeJ
P. M. She name the foilowm wit
prove her continuous nsldonre HL
cultivation of. said land.lz : Trankl
and Philetus 1 $ . Alexander of Box K3 < 1 ]
John Harrison of Quick. Neb. . .Jatnesl
of McCook. Neb. Zl * S. V , HART. Kcj
LAND OFKICGT McC "hJ
Notice is bet
named settlerj
to make ting
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