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C 1 r c u in stances prevented our setting forth at the proposed hour, so it was nightfall ere we passed through Colebrook; indeed, lamps were lit in many of the stores and dwellings Upon inquiry we learned that we were still ten miles from the Notch. We de cided, however, to go forward, al though our horses w.ere tired and did not pull well together, being both off horses which had never before been driven side by side. The twinkling lights grew less fre quent and finally disappeared altogeth er, which led us to conjecture that we were now in the Dlxvillt region. The stars came out and the mo6n gave a jfaint light, but this only served to make more apparent the gloom of the im penetrable forests and rocky cliffs, and as we observed all this, we regretted that we had not retained at Colebrook until morning, for the road if not ac tually dangerous, was dreary enough. We seemed as much out of the world, or at least from the abodes of man, as though we had been traveling days in stead of hours. The cry of a loon, or some other bird of night, occasionally broke over the silence which settled over us? for the gentlemen were too much engaged in their efforts to keep the horses in the narrow path to in dulge in any but laconic remarks, and Miss Alden and I, with tightly clasped hands, sat rigid and still, waiting for the carriage to be overturned or hurled downwards into the far-reaching dark ' "Aren't you afraid?” exclaimed Miss Alden. I “No, I feel as safe as" though I were in my mother’s lap,” returned Charlie, but immediately before the laugh sub sided he drew the horses up suddenly. Mr. Ackley got down and discovered that he had narrowly escaped being thrown down a precipice. “Shall we go on?” I asked anxious ly. “We can’t turn around, and I sup pose we must,” returned Charlie. The gloom increased, the darkness thickened. Trees grew thick on either side of the road, the curtains of our carriage were down, and Miss Alden and myself were thus enveloped In to tal darkness. As for my little boy, he had fallen asleep. Suddenly we heard the shrill whistle A TRAIN TEARING ALONG, of a locomotive and the thunder of a train broke the silence. Our horses 'quivered with fright so that their har ness shook, and they began plunging and rearing. Bending forward to peer "but, we saw, high up on the crags, the lights of a passing train. Another whistle, a rumble, and it had van ished. I “Heavens!” exclaimed Charlie, "we have seen the phantom train.” “Phantom train!” repeated Miss Al den, “I see nothing remarkable about it.” “Nothing remarkable when there is not a railroad track within twenty miles of here! That train,” said Char lie, “if it did not’float in the air, ran over, the points of stones bristling sev eral feet apart, and at an altitude that surveyors have thus far not interfered with.” “Is this true?” I asked. “It is indeed,” he replied. “I have heard of this phantom train, but never believed in its existence until now. It only appears one night in a year, and I suppose, luckily or unluckily, we have chanced upon that night.” Absurd as the story has always ap peared to me, I did not, in the un canny darkness which surrounded us, find it too strange for belief. Indeed, had we not seen with our own eye3, the phantom train? “Shall I tell you the story as I heard it?” asked Mr. Ackley. “O, no, not until we are out of this glcom,” said I. “If we ever are,” said Miss Alden. We went on, past one or two lum bering camps, untenanted and solitary, and just as we began to feel hopelessly shut in by dangers, seen and unseen, we entered a cleared space, and in a moment drew rein at a large, pleasant, well-lighted hotel, the Dix house. The change was wonderful. Out of the dreadful darkness Into the cheerful house and the pleasant parlor where quite a number of guests, remnants of the summer visitors, were s '.ting cozily together. “See it? Yes, I see it every 20th of September for years till the landlord took ta having me here to telli the story of his company,” broke from one corner at the room, and then we on served a tall, weather-beaten old man who looked strangely out of place In the midst of the group of well-dressed city people. “Hezeklah Winters,” said one gentle man, rising and placing chairs for Miss Alden and myself, "was about to tell of the Phantom Train which la popu larly supposed to appear every 20th of September.” “Let us not Interrupt his recital,'*• said Mr. Ackley as we all exchanged glances. "You see,” said the old man, "I was hostler down to Cohos, and I was a tendin' to my duties, when Into the stable comes a young man, genteel but sorter dissipated lookin', and with somethin’ in his eye that I didn't like the looks of. “‘They tell me at the house that 1 can’t get to Dlxville tonight, but I’ll go if the devil will help me, and I believe he will.’ * 'They say he helps his own,’ says I, perlitely, but he didn’t seem to mind what I said. t “ ‘You see,’ says he, ‘there’s a young lady with me, an’ her mother is very sick; if we can get through the Notch tenight maybe she will see her mother before she dies. We’ve got to go an' we will go.’ “ ‘But there ain’t no train and there ain’t no team that goes this time er night,’ says I, and I turned round to card one er the hosses and when I look ed ’round he wa’n’t there. I was sur prised, because you see, the stable doors opened and shut terrible hard and squeaked on their hinges. “Well, he was gone. Vanished like. I went up to the house an’ the cook an’ the chamber maid was a talkin’ about a lady in the parlor. “ ‘She’s handsome as a drawn pic ture,’ says Mary, ‘and her feller Is handsome, too. They’re a runaway nnnnlo T ' “ ‘Handsome!’ said the cook, 'He's too wicked lookin’ to be handsome!* “ ‘I wish I could see her,’ says I; for you see I pitied the girl-if she was go ing to run off with that man. “ ‘Well, come with me,’ says Mary. ‘I guess you can get a look at her, for I am jest a goin’ to ask if she wants anything.’ ‘‘I followed Mary as fur as the par lor door, but in a minute she comes out lookin’ scared. ‘She ain’t there,’ says she. “Wall, ladies and gentlemen, no one ever set eyes on them after that, but strange sights and strange sound; was heard that night by more’n one. Miss Higgins, the milliner, was waked by a noise like a train passln’ her win der, and Dick Henderson was run over by a train and had his leg broke. There wa’n’t no track, mind you, where they* found him, and a good many folks said Dick was too drunk to know what hurt him. "But old Mr. Fellows is the soberest man you ever saw, and he heard a train a tootin’ and bellerln’ that night, like all possessed. I heered him tell on’t .down to the store. He thought the day of judgment had come. And the Wid der Storm, a mother in Israel, If there ever was one, says she was a cornin’ from a sick neighbor’s and saw right before her an ingine, but she didn’t see no one else till the car passed her, and then, sittin’ by the winder that was all lit up, she saw a beautiful young lady and she was a cryin’. “She felt so sorry for her, the Wid der Storm did, that she says she never thought of there bein’ no track for the car till she got home and then she said she shook like a leaf, and she remem bered that the smoke had a dreadful curious smell.' “Just a year from that night I hap pened to be camped out in Dixville woods, and long towards midnight, I saw passin’ high up on the peakid rocks a train tearin* along at a ter rible rate. It was all lit up, but there wa’n’t only the inglne and one car. ’Twas too fur off to see inter the win dows, but I knew it was the same train. That feller was a tendin’ of the ingine, and the pretty girl was cryin’ inside. I was sure on’t, fur when a man calls on the devil as he did, he’s sure to git help, and he’s pretty sure to git more’n he wants on’t. “Wall, the next year me and Jim Gallgher thought we’d git nigher, if we could, an’ so we set out to climb the rocks, ’long in the afternoon, but sure’s your born, we never got no higher, though we dim’ an’ dim’. When night came, we was in a different place, but no higher. By an’ by the train came tearin’ along. It looked wickeder this time. The ingine seemed possessed, an’ belched an’ blowcd an’ quivered, and throwd Are, and this time I could just make out the Agger of a man walkin’ on the car. I looked ’round at Jim an* he laid on the ground rollin' an’ twist in’ as though he was in a At. I shook him pretty rough an’ he set up and gasped. "“Wall, Ki,’ says he, ‘I never believ ed nothin’ before that you ever see it, but that’s a phantom train, sure ’nough. Where’s it goin’ to?’ “Sure’s the world, I never thought of ‘hat, but Jim’s a readln’ feller, you see. At the rate that train traveled it could go round the world pretty quick, or down to Chiny, and ’round t’other way, for it don’t need no rails, you see. Hut who was the feller an’ who was the tirl. an’ was it a lie about her sick mother? I’ve Aggered on it pretty stiddy, but I don’t git no nigher the truth. Wall, two or three years after a tall, melancholy man come to the Phe nlx to inquire after his daughter; said he’d tracked her so fur; said he sup posed she’d gone off with a stranger to h'm. His daughter go* acquainted with him somewhere to school. Course no one could tell anything about her, and ♦here wa’n’t no one could bear to tell him the turrible stories goin’ ’bout the phantom train, so he went back to Canady.” Every animal Adam named was a new word added to his dictionary. G»rnltnr* for Mllllnnry. Pure, especially sable and chinchilla, are fashionable garnitures for millin ery, and rich velvets and silks are draped over soft frames, producing wonderfully effective results. This method of draping a hat cannot be de scribed; one must see It In the re ality of a picture to fully comprehend Just- how it is done. Purple Is still holding the Imperial sway it has for threo years, although a wonderful deep red Is a close rival to it, while royal blue, silver gray, black and white, white and black, all b|ack and all white obtain. Brilliant buckles and pins are used to fasten flowers and plumes to position. Indeed, where ever an effective bit of color or bright ness can be artistically arranged there it is in evidence. There Te a Clam of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently thole has been placed In all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives It with out distress, and but few can tell It from coffee. It does not cost over 14 as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. IB cents and 25 cents per package. Try it Ask for GRAIN-O._ the Disadvantage*. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells of a colored man .who noticed a board displayed in front of a building In course of erection. It bore these words: "Keep away—Danger!” The colored man walked up close to the board and traced the letters with his finger. His lips moved as If he were spelling out thei words. Before he had finished the ‘"Keep away” a brick fell from an upper story and struck him squarely on the head. Without even looking up he backed across the sidewalk and examined the big gash In his hat As he smoothed It down he sadly remarked: "Dat’s one o’ de drawbacks to a limerted edercation! ’’ •100 Reward, S100. 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