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n postcard hearing the words: “I
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OF THE EAST AND THE WEST
BY CHARLES KENYON AND JOHN RUSSELL
The next morning at break fast,
they roiled into North Platte, the
strangest, .at fascinating town
that Miriam had ever seen. In
leas tiian two weeks, as if raised
by the magic power of Solomon’s
drjinnus, a city of more than
3,000 had sprung from the
prairie sod, to play its brief and
violent part i. the swift-chang
ing drama of the building race
across the eontin *nt. It was a
city ol canvas t.nts and flimsy,
wooden houses, with a fringe of
;hacks and sod dugouts. One
long street divided it, every oth
er house a saloou. Surging in
the main ;lreet, was a motley
crowd,— railroad workmen, Mex
icans, Indians, black-coated gam
blers, swearing mule-whackers,
soldiers, merchants miners pion
eers, mixed with the shiftv scum
af all creation. There were many
woman in the throng, some
young and pretty, some faded
and liardfaced, all drifting with
the railroad as it spurned a dy
ing town and leaped ahead to
raise a living one. llviry few
weeks, a* .lie road raced for
awaid, the town was packed up
P«n a Ireight train and moved
bodiy westward to the new head
quarters Tin* Irani that
tore this tan last it; jumble of
rowdies and adventurers, the
toj's of th.*ir trades their eat
sb cj and drinkables, ami the
very roofs over their heads, had
a nanu of its own, u name it had
earned in a dozen uproarious
j u noys. “Tfell on Wheels.”
Marsh delayed only re '
Union P. eific headquarters, one
of (he more pretentious shacks,
and to meet his engineering ami
construction staff. Leaving Je.-.
son there, he had an engine
coupled to his car and went, for
ward toward (he end of track,
half a dozen miles to the we it
There Miriam had her f.rsf.
phmjise of the driving labor < f
traek laying. First to catch h *.
Jttcnr.on were the soldieis, half
• company of regular infantry
men, guarding the workmen
Their .Springfield* were stacke 1
in little pyramids a ong the
graded way ahead of the one lin
ing rails. Sentinels constantly
patrolled the right of way, a < rt.
for tlie first warning of ra'den
In the distance she saw nounle 1
tarn. Her father told her they
were friendly Pawnees, scouts
for the army, bitter foes of the
hostile Sioux and Cheyennes,
and used by the government to
protect the railroad forces.
“There’s a big btm'eh of
them,” kc said, “all under
Major North of the army. They
are far ahead, or on the flanks,
as the road advances, but you
don’t see them ordinarly as they
range a long way off, scouting
for hostiles. You’ll see their
smoke signals some day when
they have news to report.”
For half mile alon* the grade
gangs were working at high
speed. Miriam’s first, impres
sion was one of disorder and
mad confusion, men running up
and down the line, lifting bur
dens and dropping them, and
stung to greater exeration by the
rasping <• rs of the brass lung
ed gaug bosses- Then she caught
the rhythm of the swift, smooth
system of track laying. It
thrilled her like the heating of
drums. She saw the trackmen
two by two, carrying ties, ami
dropping them quiekly but ac
curately-spaced upon the
smooth bare grade. A light ear
drawn by a single, galloping
home clattered down the track
bringing two rails. Before it
could stop, two men seized the
end of a rail, heaved it up ami
t'.-ited forward, the rest of the
gang taking hold in pairs- until
the rail was clear of the ear- The
bearers went forward ut a run,
anti at the bellow of the gang
boss, dropped the rail upon the
ties. On the other side of the
car, with the second rail, the
satm* game was played. Miriam
timed the job ami found it took
less than 30 seconds to swing
a heavy rail from the ear and
run it forward to its exact place
upon the cross-ties. Thirty sec
, onds to a rail, four rails to a min
ute. Breathless work, hut the
rnon wore driven by demon i
fir red by tile s| irit of the race.
'J he moment the ear was empty,
it was tipped over the side of
the track to clear the way for
the next load, then it was tipped
hack and sent flying to the rear.
At the heels of the first gang
trod the gaugers, the spikers and
tlie bolt ers. Sparks flew as they
locked rails to ties. First tne
gaugers made the true adjust
ment, then the spikers and bolt
ers went at it with swinging
sledges in a grand anvil chorus
that sent eelio< clanging over
the prairie. They worked in
tripple time, three strokes to a
spike, 4C0 rail; to a mile.
Miriam did a little mental arith
metic mid the sum startled her
Those sledges were to be swung
forty million times before East
and West were linked
they re working well,”
Marsh told her. “They have
eavight the spiiit. They know
it's a race. If we can keep their,
well fed and if the Indians hold
off, we'll burn up the prairie. I,
have told Dodge that 1 will give
him three or f< ur miles a day
maybe live, when the best weath
er comes.”
A isitor.s came to the ear that
evening alter supper, among
them General Jack Casement, the
principal contractor, a little man
all fire and steel, not much to
look at, but a terror along the
line. His blue eyes were as keen
as the point of a Howie knife and
his voice snapped like a whip
Miriam liked the red-boarded
g ne.-al and could understand
how he had won liis war record
and the fear of the bullies.
Hut her eyes went mostly to a
tall young man who * stood
straight as an Indian at her
lather s side. She thought him
very handsome and gallant. He
reminded her of one of the dash
ing 1* renehmen ot old romantic
days, wnh his glossy black hair
which fell to his shoulders, his
mustache and imperial, ils black
as his hair, and his brilliant
eagle eyes. Her father iutro
dt e.‘d ii is romant i • figure
‘‘Mi-iam,” he said? “tins is
lull ( > ly ot North Platte, one of
1,10 scouts in the West.
Air. Cody is going to hunt buf
falo for the road. We have
made a contract that he has en
gaged to feed our men.”
Cody always quick to admire
a pretty woman, bowed with
giace!ill ease. Miriam was
charmed with his manner. She
sensed that she attracted him
and it, pleased her. Jcsson saw
it and could not prevent annov
imee lowing in his face. But
Miriam was used to her fiance’
irritability over the attentions
paid to her by other men, and
lightly ignored it. Cody kept
her entralHl for half an hour
tell ng her tales of the West- of
Indians, of buffalo hunting and
th-‘ pony expre s. lie had once
covered more than-three hundred
miles ni twenty-four hours as a
pony express rider through the
Indian country, wearing out.
twenty horses, utterly without
rest He thought it was the re
eord. He explained how he
hunted buffalo, telling her of
tlie movements of the great herds
' hat shook the plains with their
luiuberng gallop.
It s tear of losing the buf
lalo that has set the Indians
against us more than anything
else, he said. “They cun see
that the railroad will open the
the country to white men, and
that towns and settlements will
follow. To the Indians the buf
*a!o is 1 ite itself, Miss Marsh. I
have fought Indians ever since I
'ias a boy. I have red enemies
am. red triends, so I can under
stand their side and sort of
sympathize with them. But
they are up against something
too strong tor their medicine
°'ily rt lew are intelligent
enough to see that resistance is
hopeless. So [ suppose they will
keep fighting until they’re
wiped out or all corralled into
reservations.”
“It does seem a tragedy,”
said Miriam. “It’s progress,”
said the scout.
General Jack was describing
to Marsh his troubles with the
rowdies aud bad men who fol
lowed the road like birds of
prey. 1
“They’re the off-scouring of
creation,” snapped the peppery
little man. “.'iut I’ll tame ’em!
We’ve got a nice little grave
yard going already in North
Platte. Last week Dodge sent
me orders to fumigate the town
Ilc’d heard stories, plenty of
’em—killings, men robbed right;
and left. One night my boys
rounded up the blacklegs and
thinned ’em out considerable.
Hill Hiekoek got a little revolver
practice.”
Miriam had learned already
that the raw West was very
different from the settled and
civilized East, but she wondered
why the railroad endured the
wanton towns that mushroomed
and decayed along its path. She
was to grasp the truth that
fierce toil provokes fierce reac
tions. Men who worked as hard
as the railroad builders demand
ed hard play. They craved the
excitement which boiled in these
mad towns—the whiskey, danc
ing, gambling; the caresses of
womanhood’s outcasts. Their
appetites could not be satisfied
with thin gruel. They could not
have been driven to such super
human labor by day—they
would have turned their back*
upon the road—if denied equal
ly violent amusement by night.
Wise heads, such as Casement’s,
knew this, b*t endeavored to
curb the killer’s discourage the
bandits and generally to hold in
leash the worst elements of the
headquarters towns.
\\ eek after week tlie great
road lunged forward, a shining
rapier thrusting at a sullen
frontier, Miriam’s interest in
her new life heightened steadily,
as she caught its glowing spirit,
bdie joyed in the great game,
fired by the amlition that lashed
the builders, the ambition to
override or break through every'
obstacle of nature and savaee
man; to win tlie splendid race
In her father’s private ear, in
in.1c!y to be preferred to the
rough shack which called itself
the (braid I nion hotel, she had
little contact with the life of the
town, but out along the r. ad
they knew b'*r. She accompan
ied Marsh in bis frequent inspec
tion journeys to the end of track
and got to know the faces and
names of the brawny giants who
were tamping roadbed or swing
ing sledge. Irish, Italians, Ger
mans and Scandinavians, she
thought of them all as friends,
ami lor all she had a bright
smile or a pleasant word.
1 lie musKeteers invariably re
ceived her in state when the
superintendent’s special ap
peared at the cik! of the track
Good men they were, Sergeant
Slattery had been made boss of
Mi ve’o’s w' i e Corpo al Cany
laid down the law to as hard a
crew us ever slammed home a
spike. Old Shultz, like a faithful
dog at heel, was a kind of assist
ant boss to Casey, and spent
most of his time keeping Pat out
of fights provoked by a wagging
tongue and a gunpowder temper
Slattery and Casey could scarce
ly pass the time of day without
quarreling, for Pat took delight
in irritating the big sergeant.
For an Irishman, Slattery had a
very slow sense of humor, taking
life seriously, even sternly. Yet
at bottom he ai Casey were de
voted to each other. Four years
of eomradeshi in the army had
cemented their friendship. They
quarreled, even to blows, but
each would hav given life for
the other.
-wimun witnessed a typical
Slatterv-Cascy engagement, over
nothing, as usual, except Pat’s
hectoring tongue. The Sergeant
had been bragging a little about
his marksmanship in the army.
Pat listened with an eye cocked
impudently, then:
“Be me sow!, will ye listen to
him, when 'tis well known in
Oireland that there niver was a
Slattery born who could hit a
landlord at tin paces!’'
Shultz and Dinny pried them
apart. Miriam learned not to
take these Celtic explosions ser
iously- Usually, when she was a
guest of the track-layers, Pat en
tertained her with a chorus of
the road, the song he had intro
duced to speed up his gang. Its
rhythm went with the thud-thud
thud of the tamping irons pa k
ing earth between the ties, and
w th t e sw ng and clang of the
si dg s dr ving home the spikes.
Casey always started the song
with the grand air of an orches
tra conductor, p c\ing up his in
struments one by one and swing
ing them into resounding har
mony:
“Drill, my paddies, drill!
Drill, ye tarriers, drill!
Oli, it’s work all day,
No sugar in yer tay—
When ye work tor the U.
Pay Ra-ailway!”
So Casey sang it, with the
gang coming in strong on the.
last two lines, and with the other
gangs taking it up along the
track and shouting it to the
skies. It became the anthem of
the road, the Marseillaise of
their terrific toil.
Of hostile Indians Mir'am had
as yet seen none, but the reports
were coming back constant y of
raids made against the grading
gangs work'ng far a’ end and
against the brave little squads of
engineers who we thrusting in
to the western wilderness, run
ning their lines and searching for
tlie straightest and easiest way.
I khe had seen men brought in
from the front, badly wounded.
One of them had been scalped,
but had survived the frightful in
jury, and was to live the ordinary
course of a man’s life. When ha
was able to be about, he wanted
to show Miriam his own scalp
which he had recov -ed when
the Sioux warrior dropped it
from his belt, lie kept the
shriveled thing in water, in a
gas jar to k ep it moist, and,
the poor fellow was a long time
realizing that he couldn’t get it
to stay in place upon his head
and grow again. Miriam shud
dered every time she saw this
man.
Surveyors and even graders
had suffered, but so far there
had been no Indian attack
against the track-laying gangs.
But they were forging into peril
ous country. Red Cloud’s
Sioux and Porcupine’s Chey
cnnes were painted red, sworn
to stop the hated Iron Horse and
drive the white men from their
lands. Marsh foresaw troubU
in the future. He kept in close
touch with Port Kearney at his
back and, by courier, with Fort
Russell in the Black Hills. Major
North reported that his Pawnees
were uneasy, and that their keen
eyes had read smoke signals far
to the Most which made them
think that big war parties were
concentrating. The military
guard was increased- Every
railroad workman toiled with a
rifle at his feet. Most of them
carried army revolvers in their
belts, and Bowie knives as well.
The air vibrated with excite
ment.
Tto be continued}
Thunderstorms Total
1,800 A Mi lute Daily
London.—There are, on the av
erage, 1,800 thunderstorms in pro
gress in the world at any moment,
giving 360,000 lightning flashes an
hour, or 100 a second.
These are the surprising fig
ures contained In a report issued
by the air ministry meteorological
office.
The earth experiences 16,000,000
thunderstorms annually, or 44,000
daily, it ha3 been computed. Arctic
regions are peculiarly free from
thunderstorms, while Java Is prob
ably the most thundery region lM
the world.
Dog Plays With Ghosts.
From the New York Herald Tribune.
This Is not a story for persons
who Laugh at ghosts. Neither is it a
story for those who scoff at the un
dying loyalty of a dog after Its mas
ter’s death.
Falrmount cemetery, In Newark, Is
the largest burial ground in that city
and John W. Good is its caretaker.
Good has been employed in toe ceme
tery for years and has no fear of a
gleaming tombstone In tho frosty
light of a cold moon. Within the
last month, however. Good and other
persons whose homes overlook the
broad expanse of mausoleums and
burial stones have come to the point
where they arc not so sure about this
ghost business. And all because ol a
little, scrubby, yellow dog who plays
with invisible masters at dusk and
dawn.
A month ago a woman was burled
In the afternoon. At dusk the Hound
of Fail-mount trotted into the ceme
tery, looked around, found her grave
and calmly went to sleep on It.
The dog's choice of graves on which
to nap is not what disturbs the neigh
bors, however. It is his frolics with
invisible playmates that has them
curious and alarmed.
When the animal trots In at dusk
he rushes up to an unseen some
thing, wags his tail, leaps up and
rests his paws on something and
then he dashes away to grab a stick
or a pebble and lays it at the feet
of that same something. Often he
trots along by the side of the some
thing, leaping up to lick an unseen
hand. At dark he and his friend
cease to gambol and .the dog goes to
sleep on a grave. When the first
flush of dawn lights the east he is
up again to romp with the unseen.
They play for half an hour. Suddenly
♦he animal departs.
Dr. Joseph Craiger, 489 Orange ave
nue South, Newark, has seen the
dog’s antics, and yesterday he con
firmed the weird story of the Hound
of Falrmount and his unknown, un
seen companion.
A eool and daring robbery took place
at Chapin, a staid little hamlet in New
York. While Charles Burd was visit
ing in Pennsylvania, an unknown mat
stood for more than two days at Burd’s
gasoline station and sold gasoline and
edibles, cutting prices In order to at
tract purchasers. He olfcred for sale
the »“w gasoline station at a low price,
hut did not secure a purchaser.
TODAY
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Some Americans go to Europe with
money and enterprise on the right
basis. Mr. Dillon, of Dillon, Read Co.,
now In London, is planning a $150,
000,000 subway system. In which Brit
ish capital will participate “to a small
extent.”
The Shuberts of New York have six
theaters In London, and will get
more. That’s the right way for Amer
ican business men to help Europe—•
by going over with their money and
showing how the thing should be
done.
Mr. Dillon plans to construct sub
ways for trucks, to relieve traffic
congestion on the surface. The same
enterprise would be welcomed In
American cities, especially in New
York, where the stagnation point In
congestion has almost been reached.
A devout reader, disturbed by the
fact that passages from the Bible ap
pear to suggest that the earth Is
flat and square, will find In Isaiah,
most magnificant o f all the old bibli
cal writers, a text that will satisfy
him.
"It Is He that sitteth upon the cir
cle of the earth, and Inhabitants there
of are as grasshoppers; that stretch
eth out the Heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell
in.”
You will notice that Isaiah speaks of
the "the circle of the earth,” which
would indicate a round earth. Chap
ter and verse are not given. Every
body should read all of Isaiah, and
Job, also, at least ohee n year.
The government offers soma
worthless ships, rusting away at an
chor, costing large sums for watch
men.
Henry Ford offers -1,706,000 for
them. He would scrap them and use
the metal, and his offer Is higher
than any other.
Lut some conscientious official of
fers the suggestion that it may not
be legal lo sell ships if they are to
be junked.
Too bad that man with a con
science was not around when tha
navy’s oil lands were so neatly dis
posed of. It’s extraordinary how ac
tive the official conscience becomes
when an honest man offers to pay
the government an honest price, and
how soundly that conscience sleeps
when government property u. being
stol; n.
A young man named Scott In Illi
nois is waiting to he h inged. His
mother says she will kill herself at
the exact hour of her son's hanging.
Scott's father says, ”my son’s soul
died last week, just before he was to
have been hanged.”
That statement Is new in America,
1 ut old in literature. In his hell,
Dante shows sp rits in torment whose
bod es were still alive, walking the
Streets of Florence when he left the
surfaoo. It is explained by Dante
that many souls go to hell before
their body dies that their punishment
may begin sooner.
The material facts concerning
£ioti. sentenced to death for murder,
are th-se: under our prohibition sys
tem Scott got drunk and killed a
man. If he is hanged the bootlegger
tiiat sold him the whiskey should be
hanged beside him.
Mr. Aldrich, prosperous lawyer, is
sued for divorce. His wife charges
cruelty. He replies, “my only cruel
ty was almost stoning her to death
with jewelry." he spent $173,000 on
Jewelry, gave the lady a $35,000 sable
coat, a chinchilla coat costing $3,000
and securities worth $100,000.
The Indy replies that not sables, not
Jewels, not securities, not even the
fur of the chinchilla, most interesting
little aimal can give real happiness.
She's right. Hut in this world we
; measure everything with money. The
lady’s lawyer. George Gordon Hattie,
demands for her alimony of $75,000
a year. The court can give her that;
It cannot give her love and affection.
Abd-el-Krim, stout warrior that
he is, suggests peace with certain
terms. The terms will become more
liberal as time passes. No semi-bar
barous state can long resist persis
tent bombing from the air.
The French, with no risk to their
fliers, are able to bomb 15 or 20 Riff
villages and camps every day. These
Moors are a brave people, but they
can not stand that very long.
Honest Mon Too Lenient.
From E. W. Howe's Monthly.
T'm glad I have always admired
| Iowa. There have been only two
bank robberies m that state in two
years, and in both cases the robbers;
were captured. Iowa men, tired of
tHe numerous bank robberies, or
ganoi-d a vigilance committee of
4,000. As a result robbers now avoid
Iowa.
In addition, the laws concerning
I bank robbers have been stiffened, and
are promptly executed. In some other
states ban krobbery is as common as
violations of the prohibitory law. The
robbers get off easily by dividing
their loot with lawyers.
One noted bank robber in Missouri
has been convicted seven or eight
times, but his lawyers have always
.managed to keep him at liberty.
Finally he drifted over into Iowa. He
was badly wounded and captured in
his first job, and will soon be in the
penitentary for a long term . . .
The Iowa plan shows the way to get
rd of many other ou'rages. The way
Is to resent them. The cowardly, In
different manner with which the peo
ple of the United States' submit to
outrages is more disgraceful than the
outrages themselves. Honest men ara
too lenient with dishonest men.
The Only Drawback.
From the American Legion Weekly.
I think that I should like to be a sailor;
They say a sailor's life is full of sport; •
He visits many, many foreign countries
And has a different girl in every port.
They're all so far apiai l that there's no
danger
Of being caught with Jane or Mar
jorie ;
I think that I should like to be a sailor—
If a sailor didn't have to go to sea.
The woman who doesn't begin to
use rouge until she is 40 years old, is
making up for lost time—Boise Capi
tal News.
Railroad cars with concrete floors
Arc now being made In Germany.
