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IN FIERCE BATTLE
ENGINEERS FIGHT EACH OTHER
WITH LOCOMOTIVES
End of Struggle Between Hot-Tempered
Irishmen Comes with De
struction of Two of Com
panys Freight Cars
A select few of the citizens that
happened at the tlmo to he lounging
or engaged in business about the de
pot In Wreston in the middle of the
afternoon were treated to tho unusual
spectacle of two enraged locomotive
engineers flgting each other with their
respective engines
Freight trains Nos 28 and 11 were
at the depot at the same time and
both out on sidings to permit the
ternoon train No
5 going south to
pass
Engineer Dempsey of No 2S with
his big engine SOS and Engineer
hane of No 11 with his big engine
1112 happened in the course of their
switching to be on the sidetrack far
thest west at the same time Dempsey
with one box car and one flat car be
hind him and Culhane with three coal
cars
The first outsiders knew of the diffi
culty was when they heard Dempsey
shout to Culhane Get off that track
you Irishman What are you doing
there
Irishman yourself Culhane imme
diately yelled back in reply
Get your old kettle out of the way
or Ill smash it for you
Smash nothin Dempsey shouted
and in a moment more both engines
were started slowly forward and be
gan to approach each other the en
gineers leaning out of the windows
and yelling defiance at each other
while the firemen evidently knowing
something of the tempers of their
respective superiors jumped to the
ground and ran to one side
Almost immediately afterward the
huge machines came together with a
crash that could be heard a quarter
of a mile away but without injury to
either and no sooner had they touched
noses than both engineers turned on
full steam and began a pushing
match extraordinary The gigantic
drive wheels of both engines slipped
on the track and flew around at a fur
ious rate while the black smoke and
the steam from the exhaust rolled up
like clouds
At first there was no motion either
way but soon Culhanes No 112 be
gan to give way and fighting every
inch was slowly but surely driven
back down the side track and across
the switch and there Dempsey left
her and started up the sidetrack again
The moment he started away Cul
hane shut off the steam and jumping
to the ground uncoupled the cars
and mounting the- engine again threw
the lever forward and dashed reck
lessly up the sidetrack toward the
other engine Dempsey had not been
watching him but some of the by
standers had and shouted ta Demp
sey to look out Dempsey took one
glance at the approaching engine and
then put on all steam and sent S98 up
the sidetrack with all speed
Culhane pursued him and in a
short time the pace became terrific
and pursuer and pursued vanished ia
a great cloud of dust out into the leveli
prairie line in the direction of
dale With Dempsey only a short
distance ahead they went past the ele
vator at Croton two miles up the
track at a speed which the men there
said must have exceeded a hundred
hiles an hour but just beyond that
point on a sharp curve both of Demp
seys cars left the track and tumbled
down a steep bank without however
causing the engine to leave the rails
and this occurrence seemed to bring
Culhane to his senses for he shut off
steam and then reversed the engine
and went back to Wreston followed
at a respectable distance by 89S
The two ditched cars were com
plete wrecks but the company will
retain both men in their service
changing Culhane however to a local
run away out on the western division
They dont care to have any more
trials of either strength or speed for
the entertainment of favored specta
tors Wreston letter in Baltimore
Sun
New Way to Stop Trains
In Austria and Germany an automo
bile system of stopping fast railway
trains without the co operation of the
engine driver or the brakeman has re
cently been tried with satisfactory re
sults The apparatus consists of two
parts one carried by the locomotive
close to the rails and acting directly
upon the brakes of the train and the
other attached to the track and con
nected with all signal points at curves
gates etc If it becomes necessary
suddenly to stop an approaching train
the turning of a lever throws up a con
nection from the track to the appara
tus under the locomotive which gov
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antomatic signal whistle warns the
engineer of what has been done The
brakes can be released in a similar
manner Between Vienna and Krems
the device has worked successfully
with trains running 62 miles an hour
Left Boy Unharmed
Joseph Bradley aged six years wan
dered upon the Pennsylvania railroad
tracks south of Pottsville Pa and
was run down by an engine but
miraculously escaped hurt by lying
down upon his stomach between the
rails The engine driver saw the boys
predicament too late to stop Horror
stricken he and his fireman went back
after the engine had passed over
young Bradleys body They found
him in tears but unscratched
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LAW AND LITERATURE
Writers Who Might Have Won Reputa
tion at the Bar
The old connection between law and
literature was strengthened by the late
Sir Lewis Morris who practiced as a
conveyancer in Lincolns Inn while he
was establishing his reputation as a
poet There have been several poets
who have abandoned the steep places
of the bar tor the slopes of Iarnassus
but the late Sir Lewis Morris is the
only poet of repute who has found the
tasks of conveyancer not incompatible
with the cultivation of the muse It
D Blackmore the author of Lomu
Doone practiced as a conveyancer for
several years Sir Walter Scott speak
ing of himself and law said There
was no great love between us and It
please 1 heaven to decrease it on fur
ther acquaintance Most of the poets
who hae sprung from the legal profes
sion appear to have eiitertainecWhc
same unlavoraMe view Cowper tTIio
was a fellow pupil of Lord Thurlow in
an attorneys oflice was called to the
bar at the Middle Temple but lie quick
ly yielded himself to the charms of
literature Denhaiu was a member of
Lincolns Inn and Thomas Gray the
author of the famous Elegy Written
In a Country Churchyard studied for
the bar but neither of these got beyond
the apprenticeship stage Barry Corn
wall was a solicitor Law Journal
A HOMESICK PIONEER
Poetic Plaint of One of the Early Set
tlers In Missouri
In wonder the people of today read
of the persistent cheerfulness with
which the pioneers went about the
business of settling the great west
Nevertheless it somehow gratifies the
weakness of human nature to know
that there was now and then a wearer
of the deerskin leggings and coonskin
cap who grumbled
One early sattler who went from a
snug New England village to the fever
haunted prairies along the Missouri
was moved to put his complaints into
rhymes one of which has survived
and is now carefully preserved by the
descendants of the early settler who
live surrounded by the peaceful pros
perity and comfort of a Missouri farm
right in the heart of the anathematized
prairie
Oh lonesome windy grassy place
Where buffalo and snake prevail
The first with dreadful looking face
The last with dreadful sounding tail
Id rather live on camel hump
And be a Yankee Doodle beggar
Than where I never see a stump
And shake to death with fevcrn ager
Judging from tho last line one might
conclude that an acute attack of ager
had suddenly prevented him from con
tinuing
Pio In England
Pie came to the fore in England
many centuries ago It originated in
the form of mince pie and was used in
the celebration of Christmas In its
primitive stage it was baked in a deep
sided dish lined and covered with
rolled out dough The filling was of
forcemeats richly sweetened and
spiced This spicing and flavoring
stood for the presents which the wise
men bore to the Christ in the manger
For years and years this custom of
having the Christmas mince pie pre-A-ailed
but finally it was denounced far
and wide by the Puritans as a form of
idolatry and the government after par
liament had suppressed the celebration
of the birth of Christ took steps to stop
the baking and eating of the mince pie
Eventually saner reasoning led to tho
taking off of the ban and the pie eat
ing custom was renewed London
Standard
Firm Resolution
Dave Saddler was a brave Confed
erate soldier who was in the hospital
at Richmond and who in spite of his
sufferings always took a cheerful view
of the situation One day when lie was
recovering a visiting minister ap
proached his cot and tendered him a
pair of homemade socks
Accept these said lie I only wish
the dear woman who knit thein could
present them to you in person
Thank you very imei iv David
gravely But I have de i led tht I
never shall wear another pair of socks
while I live
The preacher protested ht to no
purpose and Hnalh o sought ot the
boys sister to toll her how foolishly
the invalid had behaved
Why cvclaiirod she both his feet
have been hot oTI
Tha Cccnt cf Fvers
As a ru the scent of tlowcrs dns
not exit i i them rs ii a store or
gland but rather as i li ith an ex
halation While the t wcr lives it
breathes vit its sweetn - hut wkoi
it dies the fragrance usial feae to
exKt The method of st aKng fr 1 tle
lower its fragrance while it is still liv
ing is no new thi a I it is not
known when it was di vvored rhat
buttor fat oil vomM aysorlj
the dor given oT by living lowers
placed near rlem and wmiid themselves
become fragrant
How to Make Homo Happy
Mary angrily I think vou are the
biggest fool in town John John mild
ly Well Mary mother used to tell
me that when I was a little boy but I
never thought she was right about it
until I married you Liverpool Mer
cury
A Thackeray Retort
Eeing asked once whether he had
read any of the books of a popular
novelist Thackeray rejoined
Well no Tou see I am like a
pastry cook I bake tarts and I sell
em but I eat bread and butter
The lfest remedy for wrongs done ns
Is to forget them Syrus
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PLAY WILD PRANKS
LOCOMOTIVES THAT SEEM FOND
OF JOKES
Truthful Engineer Tells of Wid Ex
periences That Disgusted Him
with That Especial Kind of
Humor in Engines
Bill said the engineer was tell
ing me about an engine out in the
western part of the state the other
day that did a queer thing
They were standing all quiec
enough at a station The engineer
was out on the board and the fireman
was down on the ground doing some
thing All at once just how or why
I dont know and Bill couldnt figure
it out himself the engine broke away
from the ienrim inil sfrirfoi ntf nil
alone down the road
The first thing she did was to
knock the engineer down and cut
both legs off She kept on down the
line eight or ten miles running wild
At a crossroad she smashed into a
train and that laid her out
I call that a pretty sad kind of a
joke but it shows what engines will
do sometimes Some engines are
just about like folks in that respect
They are always looking out for a
chance to fool somebody and play
some kind of prank on em
The funniest engine I ever saw
was one that I had myself out on the
Western coast It was the first one I
ever took afW 1 got my commission
as engineer
That engine fairly laid awake
nights hatching up ways to make it
interesting for us boys If we were
stopping to get a drink and I was
down oiling irp she seemed to know
that then was her chance Shed just
stai t right out and buckle in like mad
to get away from us
You couldnt trust her to stand a
minute She was just like some
horses she wouldnt stand a minute
without hitching when she took a no
tion not to
One time we came dreadfully near
having an awtul time with that en
gine The K M run right along by
the side of our track for seven or
eight miles in one place AVe used to
like to come out on that stretch to
gether
Once in awhile we would let our
selves out a little there though it
wasnt strictly according to orders
and try the temper of our engines The
folks back in the coaches seemed to
like it
It was one dark night with a storm
over the prairie The rails were slip
p v and we hadnt been making our
ti e very well We left Waupack 40
ml utes late
Well just as we got fairly outside
Waupack where the K M bends
in toward our line I felt the old thing
give a mighty leap ahead But as
soon as I saw the headlight of the
night express on the K M I knew
we were in for a race Our engine
was settling down for business
I shut off the steam I tried to
keep the air on so that she wouldnt
get away from me but she buckled
in all the harder I began to get a
little scared myself
ror ine nrst nine or two it was
about an even thing with us We
kept right along side by side I could
see that the men over on the K M
were doing their level best to keep
up with us The fire fairly flew out
of their smokestack And all the
time were were not using a pound of
steam Still our drivers were just
purring round and round
I could see the heads leaning out
of the windows of their train and 1
had no doubt it was the same way
with our folks they all wanted to
win We just rocked from side to
side The old engine was going to
show us what she could do She had
the bit in her teeth
And we began to gain She had
it in her to win if you only let her out
Ill say that for her She was the
fastest engine I ever had anything to
do with You always had to hold
her back
Just as we were pulling into San
Tone the thing that made my hair
white happened We were then two
or three train lengths ahead of the
K M For quite awhile I had teen
so busy trying to keep the upper hand
of the engine that I hadnt had time
to watch the blocks
All at once I looked up acd there
right opposite us was a signal set
against us That meant that wel
got to stop and wait for orders I
shoved the air down harder than ever
but the old thing never cared On
she pounced like a mad animal
I let sand on the rails and that
made no difference It looked as if
we were bound for destruction
It went on that way for five min
utes and I expected every minute
something would happen Then all at
once she began to sag back We could
see the lights of San Tone a little way
ahead and I knew we were just at the
crossing of the K M It would have
cost me my job if we had run over
that without stopping
But she pulled up just at the cross
ing as calm as if she never had been
on a tear in all her life I could hard
ly stand up when I got down from my
engine that night I was so weak It
took every particle of the sand out of
me
I told em down at the office that if
they didnt give me another engine I
would quit the road And I would I
was too old a man to have such jobs
as that put up on me
But you cant tell what any of em
will do Its interesting but deliver
me from engines that think they are
jokers New York Sun
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