Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — The Train Came Down. [ARTICLE]

The Train Came Down.

At a small railway station in the hilly part of Alabama, an old man, carrying a carpet bag and a3companted by his wife, boarded the train. They took the first seat, the old lady sitting next the window. It was apparent that this was their first railway journey. The train started, and they both looked eagerly from the window, and, as the speed increased, a look of the keenest anxiety gathered on the old lady’s face. She grasped her husband’s arm and said, io a voice plainly audible above the roar to those about her: “Joel, we be goin’ awful quick. I know ’taint safe.” A few minutes later the train ran on to a long trestle. With a little shriek of terror the old lady sprang to her feet and seized the back of the seat in front of her. There she stood, trembling from head to foot, staring from the window. Meantime the train sped onward and was soon once more on solid earth. The old lady was quick to note the change. Her features relaxed and she sank into her seat with the fervent exclam mation : “Thank goodness I She’s litagainl”