THE UNBROKEN HEART
Ho was sitting at the window avd his
little nose was Hat
As ho pressed his face to kiss me with
his lips against the pane
Then I hour but without kissing in vex
ation seized my hat
It had jostled and I knew that I would
barely catch the train
Camo just faintly Papa kiss me as I
hurried out the gate
But my lime was all to scanty and I
really couldnt wait
For I heard the distant whistle and I
know that I was late
And my work accumulating in the town
TJe was silting at the window and as
town ward rolled the train
I looked back to see the house and into
distance watched it pass
And I knew that he was crying with his
little might and main
Tor the kiss I hadnt time to press
against the window glass
I could see him with his choo choos
quite disowned upon the iloor
And his wooden blocks forgotten and
my parent heart grew sore
And I thought Dear God what what
if I should never see him more
At the window when I started for the
town
He was sitting at the window and his
cry a little moan
As my mental vision saw him all that
long and wretched day
And my foolish fearful fancy knew him
dying there alone
With his kiss that still was waiting for
his papa far away
He was dying of the grieving of the
awful awful ache
Of his little baby heart that love had only
filled to break
-And I pushed the papers from me and de
clared that I would take
The returning train and hurry from the
town
He was sitting at the window as I clat
tered at the gate
And his tiny nose was flattened as he
pressed it to the pane
And I heard his joyful clamor as with
baby heart elate
lie screamed out a royal welcome with
his little might and main
With a brown and sugared doughnut held
in either chubby fist
And his cherry lips a pucker in the quaint
est sort of twist
To my arms he came a leaping and he
clamored as I kissed
Now ven papa what you bling me
fom ve town
Chicago Record
ttARBISON IE
A ROUND HOUSE
Smoky Hill was the end of the track
at that time said the old engineer
shifting his lame foot to an easy posi
tion We had built a round house a
square one with two stalls and room
at the back for three or four bunks and
a work bench To protect ourselves
against the Sioux we had lined or
wainscoated the house up to about five
feet from the ground and filled in be
hind the lining with sand
Indians were thicker
in Kansas in the days of the build
ing of the Kansas Pacific and scarcely
a day never a week went by without
-a fight At first they appeared to be
awed by the locomotives but in a little
while their superstitious fear had van
ished and they were constantly setting
lures to capture the big boss as they
called the engine One day we were
-out at the front with a train of steel
some eight or ten miles west of the
Hill It had been snowing all day in
little fits and spits and near nightfall
the clouds became thicker and darker
and before the sun had gone down the
snow was falling fast By the rime
the last rail had been unloaded it was
pitch dark and as the engine was head
ed west we wore obliged to back up all
the way to Smoky Hill The conductor
and the captain of the guard composed
of goveniment scouts took a stand on
the rearmost flat ear and when I got
a signal I opened the throttle and be
gan to poke the blunt end of the con
struction train into the darkness Or
dinarily I hate running backward at
night but in a case of this kind it is a
real relief to know that there are a
dozen or more well armed soldiers be
tween you and whatever the darkness
holds Three or four men with white
lights were stationed at intervals along
the tops of the ten or twelve cars that
made up the train The house car or
eabdbse was next the engine and upon
the top of tliis car stood the foreman of
the gang and from him I was supposed
to take my tokens
We had been in motion less than ten
minutes when I saw the conductors
Jight we were going with the storm
stand out and following this move
ment all the lights along the trains top
pointed over the plain and I began to
slow down Instantly a dozen shots
were fired from the darkness Muffled
by the storm the sound came as if a
-pack of firecrackers were going off un
der a dinner pail and we all knew what
-we had run into Injuns shouted the
fireman leaping across the gangway
-and theyre on my side Keep your
seat said I theyre on my side too
Now all the white lights following
another signal from the conductor be-
gan to whirl furiously in a short circle
That was my notion precisely If they
liad prepared to ditch us we might as
-well go into the ditch as to remain on the
tops of the cars to be picked off by the
Sioux so I opened the throttle and be
gan to back away again as fast as pos
sible The Indians had prepared to
ditch our train They had placed a
great pile of cross ties upon the track
expecting that when we struck them
our train would come to a dead stop
This small party which had fired upon
us was the outer watch the main band
being huddled about the head of ties
where they expected us to halt and
-where most of the amusement would
-occur The track was newly laid and
as billowy as a rough sea but this was
no time for careful running
The old work engine soon had the
train going at a thirty mile gait
and then we hit the tie pile The men
on the rear car which was now the
front had anticipated a wreck and re
tired in bad order to the center of the
train The Indians who had only a
faint notion of the power and resistance
of a locomotive stood close together
about the pile of ties The falling snow
had made the rails and timbers so wet
and that when we hit the stack
of wood the ties flew in all directions
Some of them were thrown to the tops
of the cars and others flew into the mob
of redskins knocking them into con
fusion A line buck who must have
been standing on the track was picked
up in the collision and landed upon the
top of the second car right at the con
ductors feet The fellow was consid
erably stunned by the fall and taking
advantage oi his condition the scouts
seized and bound him with a piece of
bell cord taking care to remove an ugly
knife from his rawhide belt The band
were so surprised to see the train plough
through the wreckage that they forgot
to fire until we had almost passed them
and a great flood of fire from the en
gine stack was falling among them
They then threw up their guns those
who were still on their feet and let go
at us but none of the bullets affected
our party
When we had reached the station
the Pawnees who were among the
scouts recognized our captive at once
as Bear Foot a noted and very wicked
chief When the Sioux came to him
self and realized that he was a captive
he became furious He surged and
strained at the bell rope but it was all
in vain and finally he gave it up
When we had eaten our supper we
all went into the round house soldiers
and all for we knew the Sioux would
make a desperate effort to secure their
chief before the night was out
It was long after midnight when
one of the men on duty heard a low
scraping sound like that made by a hog
crawling under a gate A moment
later the noise was repeated and when
the same sound had been heard three
or four times the lieutenant in com
mand flashed a bulls eye lamp in the
direction of the door and the light of it
revealed three big braves standing close
together while a fourth was just creep
ing in under the door With a we-are-discovered
expression the tall Indian
who appeared to be the leader glanced
at his companions Then as though the
idea had struck all of them at once
they threw their guns up and let go
along down the ray of light and the
lieutenant fell to the ground severely
wounded
Appreciating the importance of our
capture the captain in command had
set four powerful Pawnee scouts to
guard Bear Foot the Sioux chief It
was no sure thing that we would be
able to stand the Indians off till morn
ing and as the storm had knocked the
wires down we had been unable to tele
graph to Lawrence for reinforcements
The fact that their brave chief was
himself a captive would increase the
wrath of the red men without and tak
ing even a moderate view of the situa
tion we were in a hard hole I for
one would have gladly bartered our
captive and the glory of the capture
away for an assurance of seeing the
sun rise on the following morning but
I dared not hint such a thing to the
captain much less to the Pawnees
The four Pawnees with their pris
oner were placed in the coal tank of the
locomotive while the fireman and I oc
cupied our places in the cab and kept
the steam up to 140 pounds If at any
time it seemed to me the fight was go
ing against us and the Sioux stood a
chance to effect an entrance I was to
pull out for Lawrence with the captain
and fetch assistance provided I did not
meet a west bound train and lose my
locomotive I rather liked this arrange
ment risky as it was for it was pre
ferable to remaining in the round house
to be roasted alive Then again I dis
liked fighting thats what we fed and
hauled these soldiers around for They
were so Infernally lazy in time of peace
that I used almost to pray for trouble
that they might be given an opportunity
at least once a week to earn their board
and keep Now that the opportunity
seemed to be at hand I had no wish to
deprive them of the excitement and
glory of being killed in real battle and
so sat nodding in the cab of the old 49
until the flash of the bulls eye caused
me to look ahead
The report of the rifles in the hands
of the Indians had been answered by a
dozen guns from the interior of the
building and immediately a shower of
lead rained and rattled upon the wood
en doors from without One of the
scouts picked the bulls eye lamp up and
placed it upon the work bench training
the light upon the double doors immedi
ately in front of my engine Our men
know how useless it would be to fire into
the sand stuffed sides of the building
and not caring to put themselves into a
position where they could fire effective
ly above the wainstcoting they very
wisely kept close to the ground and al
lowed the- Sioux to empty their guns
into the sand
Presently hearing no sound from
within the attacking party ceased
firing and began to prowl about the
building in search of a weak spot
through which they might effect an en
trance The fate of the three early call
ers who had hogged it under the door
kept them from fooling about that trap
for the remainder of the evening In
a little while the whole place was as
still as the tomb save for the soft flut
ter of steam from the safety valve of
the 49 Bear Foot knew what was go
ing on Even though he could see noth
ing he knew that his faithful followers
were working for his release and now
when all was silent he shouted from the
coal tank to his braves to break the
door and come in Before the Pawnee
scouts could pound him Into a state of
quietude he had imparted to his people
the particulars of his whereabouts and
immediately the whole band threw
themselves against the front of the
building
The house fiirly trembled fne In
dians surged from without and the
great doors swayed to and fro threat
ening at any moment to give iray and
let the flood of bloodthirsty redflkins in
upon us
Stand together called the eaptain
to his men
Put on the blower and get her hot
I called to the fireman for I kpew the
frail structure could not withstand the
strain much longer As often as the
fireman opened the furnace door to
rake his fire the glare of the fire box
lit up the whole interior and showed
three dead Sioux near the door One of
them lay across the rail and I found
myself speculating as to whether the
pilot of the 49 would throw him off or
whether I must run over him Now it
seemed that the whole band had thrown
themselves against the building and
the yelling was deafening Above it
all I heard our captain shout Get
ready Frank
I am ready said I
All right said he shoot it to
and I opened the sand valves and the
throttle I have often thought what a
temptation it was for those soldiers to
leap upon the engine and make their
escape but although they all under
stood perfectly what was going on not
one of them took advantage of this last
train out
Just as the Big Hoss moved with an
her ponderous and almost irresistible
weight toward the front of the building
the double doors sagged toward me liko
the head gate of a great reservoir that
is overcharged and- then I hit em The
big doors being forced from their
hinges fell out upon the redskins and
they were caught like rats in a trap
The pilot ploughed through them
maiming and killing a score of them
and on went the 49 over the safe
switches which had already been set
for her before the fight began Tho
confusion caused by the awful work of
Big Hoss which they regarded as little
less than the devil was increased when
the Indians who remained unhurt re
alized that the engine was making
away with their chief for he had told
them how he was held a captive in the
belly of the big horse
All effort for the capture of tho
round house was instantly abandoned
and the Sioux as one man turned and
ran after the locomotive The captain
in command of the scouts taking ad
vantage of the confusion of his foe and
of the fact that his force was in the
dark building while the Sioux were out
upon the whitened earth quickly mass
ed his men at the open door and began
to pour a murderously wicked fire into
the baffled Sioux who like foolish
farm dogs were chasing the 49 out over
the switches
All the Indians who were crippled
by the engine were promptly and I
thought very properly killed by the
Pawnee scouts and the rest were driven
away with fearful loss
It was a desperately risky run from
Smoky Hill to Lawrence with no run
ning orders and due to collide with a
westbound special or an extra that
might be going out to the rescue with
a train load of material but the officials
fearing that something might arise
which would cause us to want to come
in had very wisely abandoned all trains
the moment the wires went down and
so we reached Lawrence just before
day without a mishap
My first thought was of our captive
Bear Foot who had made track laying
dangerous business for our people for
the past three or four weeks but upon
looking about I saw only four Pawnees
and concluded that the fierce fellows
had killed the chief and rolled him off
Wheres Boar Foot I demanded
Here said a Pawnee who was
quietly seated upon the manhole of the
engine tank and he pointed down
During the excitement in the round
house at Smoky Hill the Sioux had
made a desperate effort to escape and
had been quietly dropped into the tank
where he had remained throughout th
entire run
Now its one thing to stay in a tank
that is half filled with water when the
engine is in her stall and quite another
thing to inhabit a place of that kind
when a locomotive is making a flying
run over a new track After much time
and labor had been lost fishing for tho
chief with a clinker hook one of the
scou43 got into the tank which was
now quite empty and handed Bear
Foot out
When we had bailed him out and
placed him along side the depot where
the sun would catch him earls the cor
oner came and sat on him and pro
nounced him a good Indian Cy War
man in the Evening Star Washington
Be Agreeable
The otherwise good man who lacks
politeness or assumes a gruff repellant
manner really sacrifices a part of his
gifts for very few people will discover
his good qualities under his repulsive
manners Those who do may have pa
tience to bear with him knowing that
his heart Is right but others will judge
him by his manners and finding him
disagreeable will avoid Intimacy with
him It Is not enough therefore to be
just or mnaneartea one snouia aiso
be agreeable in manner and it requires
very little effort to be so The founda
tion of agreeable manners is thoughtful
consideration of others or true polite
ness This does not imply any neces
sary sacrifice of frankness and honesty
It does not mean that one shall not con
tradict or dispute but it does meap
that when a contradiction is madri
necessary it shall be expressed courte
ously and Inoffensively Every one
should cultivate this kind of politeness
for in so far as it helps to make one
agreeable It extends his opportunities
for usefulness and helps to give full
play to his other good qualities Balti
more Sun
A good cook is one who can make
stewed prunes taste as if she had wash
ed them before cooking them
Wnl1 rnnrti mn flnlr
it iti u h uju uua
His -works and name snail ever live
Till chaos rules tne earth
Let every- patriot hail the day
That celebrates his birth
PleaBe Danpa will oo tell me asked a
small but thoughtful youth
Why Is a little hatchet called a symbol of
the truth
Why dont you know said grandpa Lit
tle Bobby shook his head
I tooly dont he answered Then you
ought to grandpa said
All ready he continued taking Bobby on
his knee
Its going to be a story and youre wide
awake I see
Once on a time a little boy of just about
your lift
Received a little hatchet from his father
for a gift
Oh what a funny present thoughtful
Bobby cried Suppose
That boy had chopped his fingers off and
bloodied all his clothes
I dess his foolish papa then would cry a lot
I say I
Why didnt that boys mamma take the
hatchet right away
Perhaps she didnt know It grandpa
laughed at any rate
Next morning bright and early rose that
little boy elate
To try his little hatchet In his fathers gar
den he
Displayed his skill by cutting down a favor
ite cherry tree
A cherry tree cried Bobby Werent
any woods around
Why cherrlea are the goodest things to eat
I ever found
I dess that little fellow wasnt smart a bit
like me
Say Danpa Do you link Id kill a lovely
cherry tree
Of course you wouldnt Bobby youre too
fond of things to eat
But just for fun suppose you did and then
had chanced to meet
Your father in the garden and he sternly
asked you who
Gut down his favorite cherry tree Now tell
me what youd do
nss cnerry tree
And papa came and caught me
If I cut down
with the
hatchet wouldnt he
Know certain sure I did It If I told a story
why
Hed whip me twice as hard you know for
telling him a lie
But If I looked real sorry and I didnt skip
and said
Dear pop forgive poor Bobby who cut
down your tree Instead
Of getting any whipping wouldnt papa say
My son
Because you didnt tell a lie no whipping
will be done
Ahem said Grandpa startled by the wis
dom of the tot
Thats Just the thing that happened In the
story Now you trot
Away to bed and say your prayers before
you close your eyes
And dream about the whippings bad boys
get for telling lies
Detroit Free Press
Washingtons Greatest Glory
The transcendent glory of Washington
as a soldier is that when the war was end
ed he surrendered his victorious and stain
less sword to the civil authority For
eight long years he had carried that
great trust without salary or pecuniary
compensation of any kind never but once
seeing his beloved Mount Vernon A pli
ant army smarting under grievances
would have made him king or dictator He
crushed the very suggestion with indig
nant rebuke Cromwell and Napoleon
after successful revolutions had held on
to power There is hardly another case
In history where under like circum
stances power has been voluntarily sur
rendered Washington set for all suc
cessful generals in all ages after him a
noble and immortal example when he
sought out that weak and migratory con-
gress at Annapolis and in such dignified
and manly words as these closed his im
pressive speech of resignation
Having now finished the work assign
ed me I retire from the great theater of
action and bidding an affectionate fare
well to this august body under whose
orders I have so long acted I here offer
my commission and take my leave of all
the employments of public life
WASHINGTONS COACH
It Is Now a Boost for Chickens in an
Old Barn in New York
Washingtons coach in which the fath
er of his country rode to his inauguration
and which should be treasured as apre
cious relic is now rusting away in an old
stable in New York serving as a roost
for chickens and a catch all for discarded
things usually thrown into garrets A
few years ago this coach was purchased
for 6500 but to day it is virtually neg
Iected
With what delight says the New York
Press in commenting on this would the
French take this graceful relic and array
washikgtons misused coach
it in the Musee de Cluny beside the Na
poleon carriages guarded so reverently
None would esteem it better as a public
possession than the Swiss or Tyroleans
who have his portrait and that of Abra
ham Lincoln in honored places on the
walls of their homes His appeal is as
strong as that of the other who made
way for liberty brave Arnold Winkel
ried And wouldnt the Italians like to
wheel it into the great armory at Turin
It would look interesting beside the stuff
ed skin of the horse that carried the hero
of Marengo and the picturesque accoutre
ments of Garibaldi Here in New York
it is falling away with neglect
February
When the streets are full of slushy mushy
snow
When our cellars and our gutters overflow
When we lose our gum galoshes
As the snowdrift slowly sloshes
And upon the sidewalk sploshes
Doncherknow
When the careless little birdlet pokes his
head
From his warm and comfortable winter bed
And receives an Icy tiplet
From Johannes Frostus nlplet
And then dieth of the piplet
Very dead
When the earth Is In a sort of frozen web
When the cigarette gives way to the eubeb
Then oh then tis very clear
And I say It without fear
We have reached the time of year
Written Feb
Harpers Bazar
No Tariff on the Prince
Prince Ranjitsinjhl the cricketer ap
pears as one of the articles on the free
list in the New South Wales tariff He
is going to visit the country with an
English team next year and has been
excepted by name from the penalties
of a bill imposing a tax of 100 on all
colored aliens that land In the colony
The bill is intended to exclude Hin
doos Chinese and Japanese from Aus
tralia
If all men knew what they say of one
another there would not be four friends
in the world This appears by the quar
rels which are sometimes caused by h
discreet reports
FASTEST RUN ON RECORD
An Old Encrinccr Tells of the Great
Time Kc Made on a Railroad J
Western roads have recently set up so
many claims as to their ability to make
fast runs and break the record it is
possible the following story told by an
old engineer of how he once broke all
records and pulled a freight at the rate
of G73 miles an hour may end the con
troversy for the time being
Realty my son said the engineer
as he oiled vhe drivers of the huge lo
comotive he had just backed Into the
depot the fastest time I ever made
was the fastest run ever made in this
or any other country I was hauling
freight then and running an old Bald
win mogul We had started east with
a train of twenty one cars and four
of them were loaded with powder I
was a little afraid of powder and was
pleased to note that the cars containing
the explosive was near the rear of the
train We stopped on a siding to let
the west bound express pass and then
pulled out and let her go for all she
was worth so that we could get over
the tunnel summit The top of the hill
was just at the entrance to the tunnel
and as the track was not in very good
shape In the tunnel I shut off steam and
eased her up a little after getting start
ed down the hill That was where I
made a mistake for ten of the cars had
broken loose after the engine and first
eleven cars had passed over the sum
mit and the momentum carried them
over the knuckle and they came dovu
after us fifty miles an hour Just about
the middle of the tunnol they struck us
with terrible force and then it was that
I made the fast run for you see thet
powder exploded and my engine and
all the cars that were left shot out of
the tunnel just like wads out of a big
gun My breath was fairlv taken awav
by the speed and I had to hold tight to
the cab to keep from being left behind
Old 71 kept the rails and shot out of the
other end of that hole going at the
rate of G75 miles an hour in fact we
went so fast that the watchman did
not see us pass although he heard th
terrible report and thought that the
tunnel had caved in When we reached
the little town of S we were going
about 350 miles an hour having lost
some of our velocity Of course only
a few of the cars kept the track and
they all had hot boxes and flat wheels
when we finally came to a stand It
was 403 when we entered the tunnel
and allowing a minute from that time
till the explosion took place we ran the
eight miles in just forty six seconds
according to my watch Old 71 lost her
side rods and connecting rods and two
of her tires and had her smokestack
carried off by the wind pressure but
she was able to pull in on the side track
and just at that moment the operator
received a telegram from O six
miles on the other side of the tunnel
which read
Caboose No 64 and two smoking
cars just flew by leaving boards in the
air which are still falling Rails are
red hot from the friction
That young man was the fasvtlfiS
run I ever made and I dont want ro
break the record again And then
without even a smile the old man
crawled up on the cab of the big ex
press engine and got ready to pull out
with the limited -Boston Herald
Small Courtesies
Habit counts for so much in little
things that one cannot look too care
fully after the small courtesies in ones
own conduct A writer in the Interior
describes a visit to a home where the
young people possessed the true polite
ness which habit had made natural
One evening last week I entered a
room where several young men with
books and work were sitting around
the lamp The young man with the lex
icon and the grammar on the table be
fore him was the busiest of the group
but he instantly rose and remained
standing until I
had taken my seat
The little action was automatic the
habit of his family is to practice small
courtesies and the boys have been
trained from childhood to pay defer
ence to women They always rise
whenever a lady their mother sister
friend or guest of the house comes into
the room where they are at wnrt
Neither mother nor sister goes out
after dark without an escort One of
the boys can always go out of his way
or find it in his way to see her safeiy
to a friends door or to the meeting
which she wishes to attend Most win
ningand sweet is the air of good breed
ing which these young men have ac
quired which they wear with an un
conscious grace
You should not care so much about
the merely superficial conduct says a
friend Veneering is only a polish Laid
on I approve of the man or woman
who is honest sincere I can pardon
him a little brusqueness which may be
his only misfortune
It Is not veneering to be polite We
are apt to grow confused on this sub
ject and to fancy that there is a nat
ural conflict between goodness of heart
and elegance of deportment The fact
is life would be a far more agreeable
thing if politeness were more assidu
ously cultivated
Which
Wickwire Have you
noticed that
Mudge has quit cigars and taken np a
pipe
Yabsley Yes I wonder what is the
cause Has he been playing the races
or getting engaged Indianapolis Jour
nal
Shy Xonn Thinjr
She Have you ever been kissed by a
girl before
HeWhat a question Of course I
havent Judy
Tobacco received its name of nlev
tiana in honor of Jean NIcot envov
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from the court of France tq Portugal JK
who sent some seed to Catherine df
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