Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 April 1897 — Page 6

JACK DEAN'S WHISTLE.

BY KATE WHITING I'ATCH.

We sat by the fireside together, my husband and I. There was no light in the room save the glow of the burning logs. We were waiting for the tea bell to ring, and had been talking idly of whatever lay uppermost in our thoughts. "Why it it," I asked at length, "that the six o'clock train always whistles as it passes the cemetery? There is no crossing there, and the other trains never signal in passing." "Don't you know the story of Jack Dean's whistle?" asked Ernest in surprise. I reminded him that I had only lived in Greenbrier six short months. "I am constantly forgetting that, little woman," he said, taking my hand in his and smiling in his dear, absentminded way. Then I spoke of the whistle again. "Ah, it is a sad story,' he said, leaning back in his chair and looking into the ruddy embers. "Jack went to school with me that is how I happened to knew him. lie was a smart fellow always. His father had been an engineer, so Jack naturally took to the road, and at twenty-one was given a good position, with a fair salary. Under these favorable circumstances it was not long before he discovered that a certain

Mary Brown possessed the brightest eyes beneath the heavens so he fell in love and got married—as some fellows will, you know," added Ernest mischievously.

I am going to tell the rest of the story my own way. Ernest told it far better, perhaps but I cannot remember just the words lie used, though the sad little story is very fresh in my memory.

It was a happy little home, that one on Garden street. Mary's eyes grew brighter and bluer day by day, but ofttimes a shadow of anxiety would creep into them. Her husband's calling was a dangerous one, and the little woman's heart did not throb quite easily until she saw him turning in at the gate each evening.

So it came about that Jack began to use his engine whistle as a signal of safety. Just as he reached the bend of the road by the cemetery he would whistle loud and cheerily to let the little wife know that he was safe and well, and would soon be home to supper and Mary would set a lamp in the window as a like signal for him.

The happy months wore on, and the neighbors learned to listen for the whistle as a time-keeper. When the evening, breezes brought "Jack's whistle" to their ears the women knew that they might watch for their husbands to come home when they heard "Jack's whistle" the little children knew it was almost time to go to bed. And all these months not once did Mary's listening ears fail to catch the longed-for sound not once did Jack's eyes miss the little beacon light that made his heart beat faster.

Not once? There did come a night when the cheery whistle sounded as usual, but the engineer, peering from his window to catch the little light that showed him where home lay in the gathering darkness, looked in vain. No cheerful ray shone from that small window to tell him that a loving heart was anxiously awaiting his coming.

Poor Jack. For a minute he almost forgot where he was almost forgot that there were more than a hundred lives depending on his attention to duty and he must not think then of the one life that was so dear to him in yonder little cottage. It was only a minute, though. He brushed the mist away that his •watchful eyes might be as keen as ever, and with a great effort of will he steadied his trembling hand. The train reached Greenbrier three minutes ahead of time that night. Three minutes ahead of time, but it had seemed an eternity to the heart-sick man and he was sure the distance to his little home was twice as long as it had ever been before.

He burst open the door and looked eagerly about the neatly kept kitchen. The fire was out the small table by the window looked lonely without the lamp that had always been burning upon it at this time and where was the gentle, blue-eyed little woman who had always met her husband at the door with a kiss and smile?

Strong man as he was, all Jack Dean's strength forsook him, and he could not move from where he stood. "Mary," he called huskily. "Mary!"

A low moan was the only answer to that anxious call. The engineer, as th-jugh strengthened by that faint cry, hurrie.'.iy crossed the kitchen and pushed open ihe door of the small chamber.

There on the bed in the corner lay his wife but how differem from the wife lie hai left in the »iiornin^. The smile bad faded from her iips: the r-nr from her cheeks. ?nd the sweet blue eyes were c1osed.

Wi'i! with alarm, J.ii'k fell upon his knees by the 1 edsirtc a:» I threw Im arms about l.er "Mary! Darling! What is wrong?" he cried, holding her close and passionately kissing her pale forehead.

As though roused by his caresses, Mary opened her eyes a moment and clasped her hands about her husband's neck. What cared she for the coaldust an'* cinders. He was her husband, and she knew that the heart he had given her was pure and strong. No cinders could blacken that. "Don't be frightened. Jack, dear," she murmured faintly. "Ill be all right soon. I—I don't know what th£ matter is—it came .so suddenly—I—I felt dizzy —and—faint—and I came in here—and dropped down—I don't know how long ago. I did not know anything more till*—I heard—the whistle—I tried to get th£ lamp then—I tried so hard—dear— but I couldn't—" "Oh, what can I do for you? Who shall I get?" groaned the poor husband desperately. "Don't get anyone—I only want you," sighed his wife drawing his head down upon her breast: and then she became unconscious again.

But Jack knew that something tnust be done.. He arose^ffoui his place at t'ie bedside and stole-quietly out'of the room and into the darkness again. Their next-door neighbor was not far away. A good, motherly soul she was. too, vho listened with tears in iier eyes to

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Jack's story and after sending her eldest son for the doctor, threw a shawl about her head and went back to the cottage with the distracted man.

The doctor shook his head gravely when Jack looked wistfully into his eyes each day. Mrs. Wilet spent much of her time in the sick room, but Jack himself was the faithful nurse day and night.

He had gone to the superintendent of the road and told him of his trouble, informing him that he could not work while his wife was ill. "There's no one to take care of her but me, sir: and if—if anything should happen to her while I was off I could never forgive myself." "But what are we to do while you are away?" replied the superintendent. lie liked Jack Dean, and would be glad to grant him a favor but they could not take off a train because an engineer's wife was dying. "I'\e thought of that, sir," answered Jack. "Sam Willet, who was engineer of my train before I took it, is home on a vacation. He says he'll run it for a day or so if the company's willing."

The superintendent thought it over for a moment. He remembered Sam Willet, a smart fellow and a trusted engineer, who now held a trusted position on another road. He looked at Jack's sad face, and thought of his own wife at home, and then he said: "Yes."

So Jack was his wife's best nurse. Great, strong man as he was, no one could have been more gentle and caretaking not even comfortable Mrs. Willet.

Alary was delirious much of the time, and her mind dwelt constantly upon the events of the day that she was taken ill. She would whisper to Jack over and over how she had heard the whistle and had tried so hard to get up and light the lamp. Then when he had comforted and quieted her in his arms she would start up again and tell it all over.

At last one evening when the poor fellow was sitting at the window with his tired head buried in his hands, he heard his name spoken gently. "Jack." He hastened to the corner where she lay and dropped on his knees by her side. "I am tired, dear so tired," the gentle voice went on. "Take me in your arms, Jack." He gathered her close in his strong arms, and she laid her head on his breast and smoothed his check feebly with her little, thin, white hand. "I'm better now. dear," •she said softly, and then closed her sweet blue eyes again.

Half an hour later the doctor and Mrs. Willet opened the bedroom door. But there was no need of doctor or nurse now.

In that corner of Grenbrier cemetery that slopes toward the railroad they buried her—the gentle, blue-eyed wife. Next day Jack Dean went back to his engine.

As the train moved out of the station and drew near the cemetery he looked out of his window at the little mound of new earth, which loving hands had covered with fragrant flowers.

The kind-hearted fireman turned away, that his comrade might have a chance to wipe away the hot tears that sprang to his eyes. The fireman's own eyes were far from dry.

A long, sad day it was for the poor engineer. The strict attention to duty required of him helped ease his suffering somewhat but the sad thoughts would come—such hopeless, sad thoughts. The return trip was even worse. Ah, with what pain he remembered the happy days when his heart' bounded at the thought of going home. But now—what was there for him to look forward to? It could n"ever be home any more. The dear wife-angel had spread her wings and gone. It was only an empty nest now. Yet would not the memory of her dear presence keep that little cottage a shadow of paradise? Something akin to that it must surely be. He rested in this tranquil thought a while, and then the bitter ones returned with added force. "Never again shall I see that little beacon light placed in the window to greet me—never! And those blue eyes—that kiss—never again! Never!" What a fearful word it was! "What is my life to be henceforth? Nothing but never— never—forever—forever. Forever going back and forth, back and forth, ovei* these hard rails, with never a thought of joy to come never a bright spot ahead! Ah, better that I, too, were at rest by my Mary's side in the corner of the little cemetery!'

The train sped onward, die noise of {he wheels seeming to mock him with his own words, "Forever, never, forever, never!" in monotonous repetition, till his brain whirled.

As the shadows began to fall the train drew near the Greenbrier churchyard, and from force of habit the engineer laid his hand upon the rope that opened the throttle. He dropped it suddenly as a bitter wave of remembrance swept over him then he seized it again. "I can't go on without whistling," he said to himself. "It seems as though Mary would miss it, even now."

A long, low moaning whistle broke the evening stillness. The Greenbrier children stopped in their play when they heard it and wondered if that could be "Jack's whistle." The good wife glanced at the lonely cottage and brushed a tear from her eye, and the tired husband breathed a prayer of thanksgiving as he turned in at his gate.

And Jack? He gazed out of his little engine window, over the fields, to the window, from whicfi no welcoming ray shone forth. He bowed his head, struggling to overcome the sobs that clutched at his throat but when he looked again, lo! over the cottage shone a brilliant star he had never chanced to notice before. It seemed an answer to his thoughts, and the fancy seized him that Mary had set it there, in the window of heaven. "I was wrong to say 'never again'," he whispered to himself. "It is only a long, weary waiting for me, and then—home!" .g "If

And that was the story he {old me as we sat by our happy fireside, my husband and I. "A gad talc," he said, with a hitSkiness in his voice as he finished and I could only answer tfith a sob, my own voice was so full of tears.

As we sat there through the silence came the rumble of th£ evening train and as it ucared the cemetery a low,

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Drum-Taps.

Professor Ella, that Nestor of critics, to whom England and all virtuosi owe so much as the father of chamber-music concerts, and founder of the Musical Union, once told me that when lie was playing amongst the violins at one of Paganini's rehearsals the drummer got so alarmed in the presence of the prodigious virtuoso that he trembled almost too much to hold his drumsticks, and Ella, laying down his violin, went to the drums and took his place, receiving the thanks of Paganini, who was fast losing his temper with the nervous drummer. Still, drummers who have been abused are not always to blame. We have all heard of the ignorant man-ager-proprietor who, being present at an orchestral rehearsal, observed that the drummer did next to nothing, and went up to him angrily to expostulate. "But, sir," says the drummer, "I'm resting—don't you see?" and he pointed to his part. "Sir," says the manager, "I do not pay you to rest: I pay you to play!"— Harper's Magazine for February.

A Despotic Grandmother. The custom which permits English parents to arrange marriages for their children used to be observed in a manner that would have provoked rebellion in an American household. The following story is told of a relative of Lady Langford, the original of Lady Kew in Thackeray's "Newcomes": "Lady Langford had only once seen her cousin. Lord Langford, when he came to visit her grandmother, and the next day the old lady told her she was to marry him. 'Very well, grandmamma, but when?' 'I never in my life heard such an impertinent question,' said the grandmother. 'What business is it of yours when you are to marry him? You will marry him when I tell you. However, whenever you hear me order six horses to the carriage, you may know that you are going to be married.' "And so it was." —Youth's Companion.

Some Interesting Comparison, A man who doesn't mind devoting his time to the making of comparisons has made the following geographical discoveries: Greece is about as large as the State of Vermont Palestine is about one-fourth as large as the State of New York: the Caspian Sea is as long as from Philadelphia to Pittsburg Hindoostan is about twenty-five times as large as the State of New York and the Desert of Sahara has almost exactly the number of square miles that the United States has. The Mediteranean Sea is big enough to cut the United States in two across its greatest breadth, making an open sea from New York to Vancouver. Great Britain and Ireland have about the same number of square miles as Arizona: Madagascar is about as large as New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina combined, while the area of England is no greater than that of the State of Iowa.

Two Strange Accidents. Probably no set of men perform their duties better than the railway employes of the United States. Engineers and firemen as a rule are brave and conscientious enough to stick to their posts, whatever happens, and train-loads of passengers are often saved from disaster through the coolness and courage of an engineer in the face of great danger. Indeed, the exceptions are rare enough to be noted, and here are two exceptions mentioned by the New York Evening Sun: "One train starts backing over a bank. The engineer and some of the men jump. Then the train breaks in two. The engine starts off with the cars that remain attached. A brakeman crawls forward over the tender and stops the runaway. Next we arestruck with the coincidence in case two. A gale of wind makes a train unmanageable on a down grade. The engineer whistles for brakes. The trainmen think it a runaway and jump. The engineer follows, and then the fireman crawls aft over the tender, sets the brakes, and brings the runaway to a standstill. "A good old New England lady once described her mental experience during a runaway of the family vehicle called a carry-all. 'I trusted in Providence,' said the honest soul, till the britchia' broke. Then I giv' up.' It does seem, from the two train incidents cited above, that an abiding trust is safer merely as a policy than a hasty leap."

The Circle County.

The oddest shaper county among the 3,ooo which go to make up the separate divisions of the various state* is Wi ren county, Tennessee. It lies almost exactly in the geographical center of the state mentioned and is about as near a perfect circle as any division of land could possibly be. The circle would be perfect but for the fact that there is a short stretch of the northern boundary line which follows a small stream for a short distance. It is bounded by Cannon, DeKalb, Coffee, Grundy, Van Btiren and White counties and is in noway remarkable exccpt in shape.—St. Louis Republic.

Sympat hot ic.

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DROWNINGS OF A DAY

SIX CHIIJDRKN IJOSE TIIKI11 Iil VES WHIIJK ATTEMPTING TO FOKD A ST1JEAM.

Seven Sailors Drowned by the Wrecking of an Oyster Sloop —Two lVoplo Urownccl In a Texas River.

Seneca, ICas., special: Six children of John MeGratli. a farmer residing in the northwestern part of Nemeha county, wore drowned near their home on Sunday evening while attempting to ford Pole creok. which is running bank full. The six children, with their mother, wore riding in a heavy lumber wagon. A four-teen-year-old boy who was driving turned the team into the swollen stream at a point where the family had been accustomed to fording it. The wagon was overturned and all its occupants swept away on the raging current. The mother managed to reach the bank and saved herself, but all her children, ranging in ages from the fourteen-year-old boy to a babe of eight months, were drowned. At last reports only two of the six bodies had been recovered. ,, ,,

Ponsaoola, Flo., special: A sloop "owned by John Conntantine, from St. Andrews bay with oysters for Pensacoia, was caught in a squall off the bar and sank in a few minutes. The crew, consisted of but two men. Constantine and John Fotes. There were also on board Constantine's wife and five children and his wife's sister, both women being sisters of Motes. All were lost except Motes, who saved himself by catching onto a hatch door, which tloatod off when the sloop went down.

Gainesville, Tex., special: Tho heaviest rain that has fallen in this city and county for many years commenced early Sunday morning and with slight intermissions the downpour continued until this morning. Miss Ruby Smith, daughter of Alderman Smith of this city, and Richard Thomason of Era were found about 9 a. m. Monday morning five miles west of this city dead. Miss Smith left home Saturday to visit friends at Era and was returning home Sunday evening accompanied by Mr. Thomason. They drove into the Swimming Water, their buggy was overturned, and both were drowned.

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Hereafter Coantv Treiurarerti Will Eiitop Upon TlioLr Duties January 1.

The new law providing that all county treasurers shall go into office on Jan. 1 is now in effect and it Is discovered will operate in some very peculiar ways. In Elkhart county, for instance, the old county treasurer's term would have ex-' pircd Jan. 9 of this year, but as underl the law the new treasurer must hold over' till Jan. 9 of next year, and the new treasurer being elected for two. years must hold office twoi years from that date and hi3 successor wiir be elected tn the fall of next year. This treasurer will then not take office for a year and a half after his election, and this will be the rule in Elkhart county. In other counties there is a similar extension of time, though not so great. In Marlon county the treasurer goes in now on Sept. 3 and under the new law he holds over till Jan. 1. or four months. In nearly every county in the State the period allowed: the old treasurers to hold over is from three to eight months. It fs the general feeling, however, that after the law has once become operative it will prove a great blessing to treasurers and officials generally, as there will be a uniformity which is now difficult to attain.

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Death Watch Murray, who was with Jackson and Walling in their last hours, in an interview states that the prisoners absolutely refused to believe that they were to be hung even after the black cap had been drawn over their heads. Ho says that they took the entire affair to be a bluff to secure from them a confessi.on. But a few hours before their execution Walling told Murray that they could not fool him with preparations for hanging, for he knew it to be only a method to extract from them a confession of the crime. Mr. Murray says that accounts for the brave manner in which the two men met death and for the boldness with which they greeted friends during the morning of the execution.

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