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II FLYING WEDGE THAT PAID An American Puts His Foot Ball Knowledge to Good Account , WON 5300,000 , IN KRUGER'S ' COUNTRY A TriuiNYiiitl Court A nrcl * Him the Illcli l > rU 'Ilirlll- < Slor > of n - ItiK Sun III Afrleau Hold lltmli , JOHANNKSHUIIO , Dec. 1. "Barbarian" Drown , otherwise H. K , nrown , an American , has juat been awarded damages amounting to nearly 60,000 by the Transvaal govern ment. It Is the sequel of the wildest gold- farm rush of South Africa , In which Urown pursued the tactics of tbo foot ball field and had himself driven through an Immense mob of la'vlcsg rushers by a flying wedge ot 300 armed men. It was an exploit ot a foot ball captain and frontier American. "Uarbarlan" llronn came to South Africa with a reputation for consummate nerve , gained In the famous Coour do Leon strikes , where ho took the part of the mine- owners and never receded from his stand , though dally threatened with death. Ho even edited a paper , enunciating his opinions , called the Uarbarlan. This furnished the obrlquet which clung to him whcu ho reached Johannesburg. Once hero nrown secured a position with LnwlH S. Marks , ono of the most Important mining companies on the Hand. Ho was an expert consulting engineer and teen made hlsnielf valuable to the firm by gobbling up the very richest claims on the Murchlson range. It was as their representative also that Dronn planned and carried out the mighty foot ball rush. Twelve thousand miners , the very rough est men In the gold fields , made up from nearly every nation on the globe , took part in this rush , which occurred on a level "BARBARIAN" BROWN ( FROM A OROUP PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN JOHANNES BURG ) . Btrotch of veldt In September , 1S95 , and the goal was a galvanized Iron ahanty , six feet square , wherein stood a government mining commissioner , whoso buslnes It was to sell licenses for claims on tbo Wltfonteln farm. Tills farm lay directly on the gold reef end belonged to the government. It was ono of the last of the rich farms whereoa the old Boers had for years been raising their crops of mealies , all unconscious of the hidden wealth. t ' .Mi * i xodua began -ten day * ybeforo the opening. The whole Rand was In nn up roar. Every mining company there pre pared for the occasion. H was well known that the Wltfonteln lay along the richest part of the reef and that a claim there would yield fortunes. The Pretorlan government knew this , too , but had not counted on any such demon stration as followed , or the claims would liavo been disposed of by lottery , the plan afterward adopted. The proclamation In the Pretoria Press gave permission to any ouo to prospect the farm , so that all buyers had an opportunity for locating the best claims. Hired K > erx Vehicle. But first they must obtain a Hcenso at the llttlo Iron shanty three miles from th farm. Consequently every vehicle In Johannesburg had been hired or bought to transport men to the spot. The road fiom Johannesburg to Klcrksdorp , which lies neir the Wltfonteln , looked like the route of nn army transportation. Tents , cooking outfits , cases of whisky and roulette tables were all Jumbled together on a wagon. , It wan estimated that on the day of the opening 12,000 men occupied the camp. In addition to many BOOM who came from all parts of the Transvaal to witness the scene. John Hays Hammond was .then consult ing engineer for the Consolidated Gold Fields company , and ho assumed direction over nearly 1,000 men , who were expected to tear a hole right through the mass and smash everything. Tbo whole camp was armed to the teeth. Every man carried at least one revolver and expected to use it , for It was a fight for big stakes and each com pany promised protection Its men. There was practically no danger of arrest , how ever , for the Zarps , or Boer policemen , trembled with fear at that tinned mob. The plans of each company > to effect the coup wcro much the same. Barney Barnato , J. B. Robinson Belt , the Joels and ever } one Interested tn gold mining In Johannesburg , great or small , took n vital Interest in the struggle , and put forth every effort to gain the prize. Each company hoped to push their man up to the window first , purchase Iho llccnso , hand It to an armed rider and hurry It off to the farm where the en gineers and peggerscro waiting to Jump in and stake off the richest claims. Six firms even went so far as to sink strong voodon posts Just by the window and l" these lashed men with ropes , so that they could not bo pulled away and passed back over the crowd. But these precautions availed nothing , for when the struggle bo- Kan sharp Knives severed the thongs and both men and posts landed on the outskirts of the crowd. "llnrlmrlnn" Ilr < mn , the Mnii. Personally , Brown was not formidable. With five feet eight 'Inches of height and ida emooth , boyish countenance , ho was not a dangerous looking man. But those who had seen him glanca down the barrel of n 45-Colt without so much as moving an eyelid , knew ! him as absolutely fearless. Brown , while he associated with the bet ter class of Americans on the Rand , was > tn speaking terms with the rough element , and he utilized these to form a flying wedge : , ( which at that period had Just been developed by the American foot ball teams. To get all these men under one flag he V blred the Beven most desperate characters on the Rand Alee Love , Jim and Jack Maloney - \ loney , Manny Garchel , "Butch"Vllaon , Jack lllldebrandt and Danger. They were men who would fight at the drop of a hat , and cut jour tbroat and take chances on escaping punishment. Love , who Is now serving a sentence for highway rob bery , was a good looking man , well edit , caotd and quite gentlemanly when sober. lie had received a college training tn the elates. He wore red hair and a red mous tache , was very handsome and massively built. Brown selected him for his captain , and cave him carte blanche financially. Each ringleader brought his particular friend * , and Brown promised them 123 a day and good bonus If tUey pushed him through. When this regiment of toughs made Its first appearance tn the llttlo town of Klerksdorp , the citizens fled for their lives. When this company rcashed the camp , many firms Immediately made overtures to the men and tried to win tlicm over with drink and money. A number of Americans started for John ' Hays Hammond's camp , but Alec Love stood In front with a drawn re volver and threatened to shoot the first man who left. K | it lhi > ri > lntf Writ we Drtink. Brown found that the only way to hold his men was to keep them drunk , BO for five daya previous to the opening , whisky flowed like water and the ringleaders boosted up tUclr cohorts with bad liquor. On the day of the rush , however , no man was so drunk as to forget about the flying wedge , which had been thoroughly explained and Illustrated. At the very peep of dawn the great mass began to push , though the sale was not until 0 o'clock. Lines weru forme I , and the entire gathering was soon engaged In a vicious free fight. Men emerged with ears bitten off , eyes black ened , noacs broken and teeth loosened. As soon as a company got Its man to the win dow ha waa dragged away and cither passed buck overhead or nearly trampled to death. Many succeeded In reaching the spot , but It was Impossible to hold a man there long , for ho was soon borne down by force of numbers. Brown and his henchmen , In the mean- time , held their position on the outskirts. It was not until half an hour before the tlmo appointed to open the window that ho began to form his wedgo. Probably 6,000 men were massed between htm and the goal at that moment , but this never feazed Uis Indomitable Yankee. With thongs of raw- hldo ho lashed himself to Alec Love and Jim Maloney , and with his feet barely touching the earth , gave the signal to move. At tbo first Impact with the human wall there was a terrific howl of pain followed by the most surpassing Imprecations , and a man staggered out of the crowd with the blood spurting from bis leg. Maloney had run his knife Into htm several Inches. In a few minutes .these cries echoed on all sides and the attention of tbo mob became divided , sorno turning to face the wedge , which hung together without a break and seemed to gain In velocity as It neared the goal. Maloney and Love , with heads down , darted Into every opening , and where tiers was none , made It with the Jab of a knife. Brown wan hustled along , breathless and bleeding , until within a dozen rods of the window. Hero several hundred Cornlshraen , great hulking fellows , with plenty of strength and grit , made a stand that bade fair to spoil the rush. They smashed the apex and were mowing down the pugilists when the rcit of the wedge broke through and cleared th way. Brown , though badly bruised , con tinned to shout out promises of reward to his men If they push him up on time. There were but a few minutes loft theu , and the ofllco was rocking to and fro wtb ! the tide of humanity. nrofTii nenclic * Iie Wlndovr. Pounded and beaten on every side , the great flying wedge made one last effort and with a zigzag movement and many knife thrusts finally broke through and fairly hurled Browa against the office. With a good right hand blow a pugilist smashed In the window and Brown clutched the frail partition with a death grip. At the eome moment n gun was fired , announcing 9 o'clock , and the whole maaa , as one man , heaved up against the llttlo galvanized Iron booth , crushing Brown almost flat Surrounded by a remnant of his flying wedge , however , ho continued to hang to the window and was Just getting at his wad of 5 notes when the government commis sioner threw open the door and announced President Kruger's order suspending the opening. H nearly coat him his life , for bullets rained In the shanty from all sides and the mob pushed harder than ever and Brown was on the point ot giving up his position when one of thoao happy Inspira tions which occur to men ot quick thought and action urged him to demand a license. "Here I am , " ho yelled at the frightened commissioner , sticking through the window a face covered with blood. "Hero's my good , hard-earned money. Now give mo my license or I'll sue the government for 1,000,000. " A sudden pitch of the mob nearly pushed the slucky fellow through the window and shattered his shoulder blade , but he waited bear the refusal and have It witnessed and then allowed himself to be passed out on the veldt. Out of the thousands there ho was the only ono who had the foresight to do this , and , though It took a long time , he finally received his Indemnity. This amount has been kept secret , but It la variously esti mated by the Johannesburg papers between 50,000 and 76,000. During the entire time that the suit was being tried , and It passed through a number of courts , the flying wedge hovered about Brown , many of them not doing a stroke ot work , all existing on th hope of receiving their share ot the award , but as Brown lefl Johannesburg before It was granted these choice spirits were doomed to disappoint ment. ALLEN SANGREE. Australia reports 1,722 Christian Endeavor societies , with 52,340 members , The Baptists are making gro.iter headwa } in Cuba than any other denomination. Paris possesses no less than 12S religious congregations for women , with C50 houses of various kinds. Tha Pacific states that the Hibernian bank of San Tranclsco has recently distributee 150,000 among the charitable institutions o ; that city. The American board , owing to the shrinkage ago In receipts from legacies and other do nations , calls for Increased subscriptions foi foreign missionary work. Rov. Dr. Cuyler says some people keep their religion as they do their umbrellas , for stormy weather , and hope to have It wlthli easy reach If a dangerous sickness overtakes them. The late Robert R. McUarney of New York waa known as "Wither of the Young Men's Christian Association" from the actlvo par ho took In building It up as a national am International organization. Rov. Luclon Leo Klnsolvlng , who has been engaged In mission work In Brazil for the last nlno years , \\1II bo ordained nnd con secratexl oa bishop of Rio Orando do Sul Hrazll , in the Episcopal church of St. Uar tholomew , New York , next Friday. He Is o native of Virginia. President Harper of Chicago university say * that "the theological seminaries nr no : In touch with the times. They * lo no tneo : the demands ot the times , ihoy .11 nit P > crnTlng men for the ministry whu an nt > . to grapple with the situation in the OhrHUan church today flnds Itself. " The American Board has In 1's twenty missions over 1.100 common or prlinar ; Christian schools , In which nearly CU.OO boys and girls ore catching their firs glimpses of the great world of Mien , icl enco , art and general learning. U has c'r ' twelve colleges , four of which are o\clublvel for Rev. Dr. John Robertson , pa * or of th City Temple , Glasgow , Scotland , and i"JHo of the Christian Scotsman , Is conducting series ot revival services In Baltimore. H has been In America since lust May and ba traveled from New York to San FranoUc working In connection with the ChrUtla and Missionary alliance. Instead of preaching an original sermo last Sunday President Patton of Prlnceto read the lecture on Immortality recently do llvered by Prof. James of llar/ard , whom ho declared to bo the most brtlltint write on philosophical subject ! living and fat that It was a thing of n ? small Imporianc tint a man of such undltputed nmlnei.ce 1 philosophy should stand up In defense o the Christian tlootrlne of Immortality. THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt FRIDAY , JANUARY 27 , 1SOO , CHASED FLYING DYNAMITE 'hrilling ' Bun Down a Mountain Grade After Runaway Oars. OTHING LEFT OF THE WRECK An Kniilncer' * Cnrelenincim ( lint Mndc n Hero of Him mid llrnnitlit Him n Hunch A AVnrm Hnlf Hour. John S. Hlnton , a locomotive engineer of orty-thrco years' service In the cab , who lulled Into Salt Lake the other day , prcpar- tory to retiring to a farm , reeled off a warm lory to a correspondent of the New York un. * "What was my most thrilling experience , urlng the forty-three years 1 have been j n the road ? " repeated Hlnton , ns the ques- i Ion was asked him. "Well , that Is not a ' lord question to answer , as the experlcnco j osulttU In giving me possession of the snug ttlo ranch up near Grceley , where I Intend ' o spend the rest of my days. " Ho told the story , but suppressed the I ame of the railroad , saying that the corn- any had stood by him many } ears and ho Id not wish to give It a black eye. "In the ' "O's , " said Hlnton , "I was run- Ing an onglno on the old Southern Mtnue- ota road , now a part of the Chicago , Mil- aukee & St. Paul system. The line had I een built from La Crosse , Wls. , west 170 I nlles throuth the southern tier of counties n Minnesota by the late Colonel C. W. Thompson as a land-grant road. After 'olonel Thompson had received several hun dred thousand axircs of the finest lands In the weat for the construction of the line the company passed Into the receivership stage , the receiver being W. C. Mcllrath of St. Paul. Mcllrath undertook to meet the re quirements of the court In the payment of claims , and In exercising the necessary economy failed to pay the wages of emploes for four or five months. The result was an agreement to strike , and one morning not nn engine was run out of a roundhouse the entire - tire length of the line. I was at Ram sey Junction when a message came signed by the receiver , asking where my engine was. I was pert In thoao dajs , and sent what I thought was a funny ans.ver- 'In the roundhouse waiting for back pay. ' Mcllrath did not appreciate the huiror of the answer , and the next Jay whnn ho had scraped together money enough to pay o'f the boys my rnvelope coi-talntl the amount duo me to date , and anothei rran went out on my run. But that Is auotbtr story , and this Is only Intended to show hov , I happened to come west and get tangled up with running on these western reads. A Jolt in the Mrnt. When I came west I got a Job firing on the II. L. & K. road , and If you know on- thing about mountain roads } ou know that It Is the roughest road in the country no : ten rods of straight track In the whole ! )00 ) miles of right-of-way , and no : a foot that bas not n grade and a stiff ono at that. Well , I kept an old-faahloncJ camelbacK warm on that road for tdreo years , and then got a freight run , I held this down until transferred to a pusher on Big Hill. Big Hill Is only twelve miles ling , but It has a grade averaging 14n feet tn the mile , and the | principal part of the grade Is In spots. Six ' loaded curs made a train up thU hill , and this train of six cars was huulivl and pushed up the grade by two engines. My englno was stationed permanently on tlio hill and its duty was to couple to the back end of one of these trains and help It up the grade. About three round trips rnad3 a day's work , 10 you see It was a gooj dual cf a arup. "At the top of the hill was a sidetrack called Acton , but no telegraph operator was stationed there. At the foot of the crade waa Buckley , a telegraph olflco In the center of a big sidetrack syatem , used for breaking up trains before sending them up the grade | In sections. Eight miles below Buckley was 1 an abandoned mining town named Camp- ton. Here was a set of sidetracks and witches and a dozen unoccupied miners' shanties , while the disused telegraph office was occupied by a oae-legged pensioner of the company , a flagman , and bla 19-year-old daughter. Twelve mile * further down the line was Mountain Spring * , now ono of the foremost summer resorts In the mountains , and oven twenty } ears ago much frequented by eastern health seekers. I explain all this so that } ou will readily understand vvh.it happened. "I had been shoving trains up Big Hilt two years without n mishap when 1 had nn experlcnco that turned my hair white In ten minutes and gave me a llfo Job and the best run on the road. And It came about through a dUobedlenco of ordcm , too. "The management of the road waa alwas afraid of nn accident on the hill through a train becoming unmanageable , and In my cab , directly over the steam gauge , hung this warning in big black tpc. \VAIININO. nnglncers of Pushers Are Warned That Under No Conditions Mit't un Kngine Ho Uncoupled fiom a Train That Is Not In Motion. Disregard of thlt Order Jlenni INSTANT Pi-null } of HlMilivdiiMiiM * . "While knowing that an order of this kind Is for something and that Us disobedience 'may mean disaster , a railroad man will In tlmo come lo look upon It as something to bo ohcjcd If convenient and to be slighted If he feels like U. And so it runic that when wo wcro In a hurry we cut off the engine horn the train , e\on If It Ind been brought to a stop. On this particular day In Juno of whlcti I am speaking wo were in n hurry. Wo had run No. 17 up the hill and \vcro ordered onlo the eldetrack at Acton to get out of the way of No 11 the through train from the south that was coining north 03 a dotiblchcadcr and with a third engine pushing It. No 11 was a Tegular , but was making this trip as an excursion train ami was niado up of eight coaches crowdel with NEW PRINCESSE REDINGOTE FROM IIARPCR'5 BAZAR A redlngoto "built" upon n model just appearing In Imported garments , and ono which later will be rendered In light silks , cloths , nnd oven batiste , Is Issued with this number. It Is a perfectly feasible garment , and ono which is equally effective for either thin or stout persons. It Is smooth-fitting In the back , as are all prlncesso garments , and the front Is equally Innocent of wrUikle. In the center of the front there Is a i slight dip or scallop , which passes the waist-Hue to a depth of perhaps nn inch nnd a \ half , Beginning wUh the second dart , the skirt of the redlngoto descends in a stinlght line quite to the horn of the underskirt. The sleeves are very smooth and plain , but fJr the turned-back cuff , which Is finished with a deep flounce of lace. The waist closes slightly towards the left Bide and the Jovvoiled buttons form the center of Louts XV. bows of velvet. The revere , embroidered , turned back over a chemisette of white tulle , and the stock collar Is of white taffeta. The pattern published by Harper's Bazar , in which the gown appears , consists of the redlngoto only , which was originally rendered In old-rose embroidered In white , old-roee and crystal beads with bow fastenings of bright Lincoln-green velvet. The accompanying skirt was of white tulle over silk , the tulle being secured Just below the knee by a five-Inch band of white lace Insertion , which was , llko the embroidery on the redlngol * , enhanced by the Introduction iof crystal beads. Twelve yards of silk , or velvet , twenty-two Inches wide , would be required to make pcoplo from the east who had been nt Moun tain Springs attending some big convention. "As the freight wo were shoving came 'o a standstill my fireman leaped to tnc ground and uncoupled the engine from the last car and I backed down over the switch and then ran ahead on the sidetrack. While tnis was being done a brakeman bad cut the train In front of the last two cars and the regular engine In front had started ahead with the other cars toward the north switch to back the four cars In on the spur. "As I shut off steam and centered the reverse - verso lever my ocs fell on the order hangIng - Ing over the steam gauge and for eomo rea son the warning gave mo a shock , a filling of danger that I had never experienced In the many times the order had been Ignored. Even then I was not alarmed when I saw that the two cars were moving slowly down the hill , and I wathcd them only long enough to see the rear brakeman clamber up the sldo ladder and sel/e the brake wheel. Then I trlod the water in the boiler , stalled the Injector , and again glanced at the cars. Evidently the brake on the first car was out of order , as the oars were moving more rap idly and the brakeman was hastening to ward the brake on the second car. Ho grasped It and swung around and nearly fell to the ground. The brake chain was broken , and there was nothing to bold the cars. "In an Instant the picture of an awful horror ror flashed before my oes. No. 11 , crowded with passengers , was coming , and those cars , running at terrific speed , would crash Into the train , carrying death and destruction to sjores , If not hundreds. The scene at the moment the realization of the Impending disaster came over mo Is before mo now as plainly as on that day nearly twenty-five } ears ago the moving cars , the brakeman stumbling : toward the side ladder to descend , the long line of shining rails leading down the divide , the fireman standing near the switch staff and gazing toward the cars with : ! ces that reflected the horror In my own , and thirty miles below , on the line of the twisted , winding track a faint blur of smoke that told nie No. 11 had left Mountain Springs. "Before the moving oars crossed the switch wo all knew what must bo done. The flreman , James Hurd , he Is a passenger en gineer on the Denver & . Rio Grande road now , had thrown the switch and swung himself - self onto the footboard back ot the tank , and the old 103 was In pursuit of the runaways. The brakeman remained to close the switch : and Hurd was bracing himself to couple the engine to the swift-moving cars when \ eat should approach them. A Wild Clinic. "No steam Is over used In going down that hill ; at the top of the Incline the throttle ! [ valve is closed and the speed of the train Is controlled by the airbrake But , a * Jim Huid took his stand on the f'otbonrd ' I 'opened ' the throttle wide to give her < i start and then put on the air until 1 had her under control , and then away wo went. The run away cars were fully 100 .vards ahead ns we crossed the switch nnd were moving appar ently at the rate of eight or ten mllce an hour with rapidly Increasing momentum. In sixty seconds old 103 was running fifty miles nn hour , and In thirty BecondH more wo wcro close to the cars. I heard Jim's voice faintly above the rattle and roir as ho shouted something , and knowing that It waste to slow down In order to approach the cars without a crash , I applied the air. A slight Jolt told me the engine nnd car had como together , nnd after walling an Instant to give' Hurd time to drop the pin In place I pulled the air valve to lessen the speed Ai Ihe engine slowed under the procure of the brake I saw the cars glide avvny fiom us Ho had missed the coupling. Again engine and cars came together and again I applied the air , vvltli the same result "Wo were running now at a speed of ol\ty or seventy miles an hour , and when /oil con sider that the track on the hill Is the crookcdcst ever survcvc-d by an engineer , cut up by deep ravines nnd canvons and leading along high precipices. > ou cju ap preciate the danger of the run Down ihe hill wo thundered , swinging through deep cuts and around sharp curves , the engine swaying and swinging on Its springs as If struggling In an effort to clash Itself Into ono of the gorges lining the track. The engine was sunounded by rolling clouds of dust through which at times I ciught glimpses of the cars pitching and tossing llko some dismasted vessel In a atoim ut sia I Know the cars might Jump the trad , at any moment and tliero was a light goal < hanco for their doing so and ditch fie locomotive , sending the fireman nnd invtelt to quick death ; but wo must take the chance so long as there was a posslbllltv of slopping the runawavs. "Again and again wo tried ta make the coupling , but failed each time. I did not know until all was over the dinicultiea the fireman mas experiencing. The draw head In the car was the old-fashioned single link bumper a man killer , we call It now and was so loose In Its socket that It h.id to bo raised nix or eight Indies nnd held In position while the link was being put In place. This required two hands , and as the flronnn could not maintain his position on the swaying footboard without using one hand to cling to the handiall , ho could not get the link In pluco and drop the pin Ihrough It. riIiiK 1'iwt Million * . "By this tlmo we were wllhln three miles of Buckley. As the locomotive and Meeting cars dashed across a trestle 100 feet high I ciught a gllmpso ot the lltlle lelcgrrph shanty down In the valley surrounded by a network of rails. I opened the whistle and kept It shrieking until we were within " 00 yards of Buckley , but no ono appeared on the station platform , and ae we flushed past the telegraph ofllce the vvhlto face of the operator , his eyes vvldo open with alarm and horror , appeared at the window for the fraction of an Instant. "As e dashed post the telegraph ofllco the long arm of the signal board pointed down , and I thanked God that the next block was still open and that wo had another chance for life. We had eight miles of clear track and might yet prevent a disaster. The only hope , however , -was In catching the runaway cars , as there was no telegraph ofllce at Campion and No 11 had left Moun tain Springs and was booming toward u ? ae fast as thrco big engines could send hei and without a slop ahead. "We crossed the half-mile of sidetracks at Buckley so fast that there was an unbroken rattle of clanking rails , and swung around the point of the mountain and down the winding track toward Campion. Over swav- Ing bridges , through cuts , the old 103 Jolted us along at the rate of seventy or eighty miles an hour. In two minutes after crossIng - Ing the jards at Buckley wo wcro within sight of Campion , neslllns below us In the valley. Hurd had been silent seemingly for hours and whether ho was still at his pester or had fallen on the rails and been ground to pieces I did not know. I realized that there was no longer a possibility of stopping the cars by coupling to them , and what my hope was , If I had any at all , I do not know ; there was only a mad determination to follow that runaway onglno ot destruc tion to the end and die with the rest. No , It ' was not heroism ; It was pure reckless ness , and the thought that If four or flvo score of human beings were to perish through my carelessness I would dlo with them. Svriteliccl nml nic\ntccl. "As the roofs of Campion came Inlo view the whistle began lo sound again. Tliree miles below lay the half-deserted mining camp ; now I could sco the rough board station , the red and vvhlto swllch targets and the dark spols on the mountainside that marked the abandoned tebt shafts. Then I distinguished a form on the station plat form , a slender form In dark calico nni wearing a sunbonnet. Even at that distance I could see Iho grace of the slow step. The woman's back was toward mo , but I k"ew her to bo Nettle Bascoin , the daughter of the one-legged flagman. It was ten beoonds perhaps , before the girl heard the whistle , then she turned Mowly , looked an Instan' ' toward us and with a quick spring was a a switch stand and had thrown the lover and the white of tlio target turned to red and No. 11 and Its freight were safe. "I quickly brought the engine to a slop as the two cars turned Inlo the siding a wfclv spur built for Just such a purpose as this and moved up a steep Incline towai J a doze ) slout piles driven deep Into the earth nut reinforced by a pile of rocKs , to act ns a bumper for runaway cars. "As the old 103 came to a r.to'i I slnggeiei to the ground and met Hurl as he s.c'ppei off the footbo-ml. Said he'Bill , 1' What ho Intended to nay I ii"ver learned % : his words wcro drowned by i > n explosion Ida lifted 10" off the rails , knotted off Its head light and smokestack and blew the cab Into splinters. Kvcry building l.i the town wa blown down , nnd It was only due to th fact that the place was practically dciertei that there weren't any number of people killed. "Thoao cars wo had chase 1 for thlity mile or more vwre loaded with dynamite , ant when they crashed ito the dculwool at th end of the safety spur the whole thing ex ploded. And as wo stood there In the wreeK ago No. 11 , with Us seven ooacnes crowdet with excursionists , went boAlln ? by. If th dynamite cars had met the ctpresi train ou ask ? That's the > thought that t-Uned in hair white. "That's the story , ind now I have flnl'he my running. I am going up to my ranc near Oreeloy that Iho company gave me fo chasing those cars down the hill that daj The girl that threw the sw itch ' She'll b there , too , She has been a half owner I that ranch since two months a'tet she save the train. " lllrtliclny MPMNIIKP < > Kiiilrav < > rrr . BOSTON , Jan. 26. President I' K f'lark D. D. , of the United Society of Chrlstla Bean the / ) Ilia Kind You Ha > 3 Always Bought Signature B n the # T" Kind You H3K8 Always Bougrt Signature of t f w O.A.STOXII.A. . Beari th /i W Kind You Have Al ays nmlcixoror * , linn pent "A birthday to Chrlfl.lan Kn tciivircrs In u uii i u. vi it ho clghttcn'h biithdny of C'hrl'.mn Kn- iliwor Thumlaj , I\l nuxrj 12 , In which he rgca the members to ' raise the stnudard " Tin : TU\MIA : or A SIOHV. loir n I'M Up AV < * n ( Ariniiiil I In- World mill Into Other 'loiiuurn , " ( Juccr ho\\ u story \\lll trau'l fomc- mo * , " remarked an olil reporter , spin- Ing jams for soiiin of tie ! > ouiiKcr twj , 1 remember je.irs .IRQ a fellow on oiu > of 10 Dcmrr papers wrote n thrilling mm- \n about a prospector named Alien , who omul a fabulously rich Bold -nilm' on the lount of the Holy Cro fl. The peak U ono f the highest nml most riiBKcd In ( Voruln nd gets Its name from two onornjou * ulihca that cross at right anglci on Its ery crest. The > nro always full of sno nd from the \alley the cross at.ind < i out ti wonderful lellef from n background of olcanlc rod. " 1 hoinn * Morin palntrd n famous picture f It and away back In the ptnentncuth ten- ill ) , when the Spanish buecinefri puihevl p the can > an of the Colorado tt-e padre * hotight Itaj .1 sign fiom hcnxeti and said itgh mass "Tho Drincr story wro , of course , n fake Vo human being had c\er scaled that f right- ill acclivity , but , Allen , who had consented beforehand to jthe use of his name , was a veil-Known character , and the jam wai wallowed for gospel truth Then It began o tnnel The caatein papers nil copied It , nd ono Journal printed u full-page lllustra- Ion. Pretty soon It crossed the Atlantic , nd , after wandering thiough the Unglle'i press , began to nppcjr translated In this pa ters of Trance nml lienmin U la n strange hlnp , but stories nlwa3 tn\el eastward This ono went o\er the continent UUo an pidemlc , and passed through all manner of \traordlnarj imitation In transit from one anguigo to another. It was translated from 'rcm.li to Spanish , fiom Spanish to Itallin , rein Italian to Kusalan. and at last It got nto the Orient and disappeared. Se\eral oars later nil 12iiKlIt.Ii weeltly. printed nt long Kong , contained n strange stor } of nil \morlcan explorer named l.lnwan who had ound a monstrous crucifix of gold on top of ho Hock } mountains. It was copied from n. iitl\o papci , and was all tint wao left of ho original Take. Heaven only Knows how much tradltl n It innmifi lured on rot 'e. The stor } win nutaeque i 1 % < i M" 1 111 fin rranolsio , with some mount of U * i'eu K It was almost lmpo lbe ! to believe It w s thi ? same old Hob C'rrMB } ntn , but the cvl- dcnco was Indltputable " iu : % r.mrTIOV Only T o 1 mm or Illi l.lfo Miictit at -1'llllllt. rev- mon have Known mor ( < than Hciijnmln rrnnklln fays a writer In the Century , } et few have nad less education , In the common sens ? of the word. Tor morn than two K.US ( at ttie HRO of b to 10) ) he went to a grammar school ana a private school In liroton ; for the other tour-store jents and more nf mi llfo ho learned without a learner. Hit father's library was small , but tin- lad him self spent the llttlo money tint catm < into his hanus on pcrlnm books nml pamphlets. Havliip ; proved deficient In arithmetic In lili early joutn , ho afterward made a npocIU study ot mathematics , and for BOIIIO tuna amused hlni'olf by constructing all sorts ot magical Btntart's and circles with rows of llgures that would add up alike , whichever way tlio\ were counted In thN connec tion , Mr 1'onl a self-educated limn him self , In that his only school won his Mthcr'i Immense private llbrarj has this to say : "His own experience toned to teach rrnnklln that a strong mind needs not schooling to develop It , and that n poor mind Is not strengthened by Httidy. 1'oor Hlch.ml nado men- } over tlio 'main- witty men whoso brains cannot fill their billies , ' nml of thoao who 'would live by their wits , but for want of stock ' 'A learned blockhead l a greater blockhead than nn Ignorant one , ' he asserted , and claimed that 'of Icirncil fools I have seen ten times ten , of unlearned wise men , I luvi > seen a hundred ' Vet rraiiKUn was far from showing the. uiual contempt of the self- taught man for tin academic education. 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