Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1898 — Push Ahead! Full Steam! [ARTICLE]

Push Ahead! Full Steam!

Cows used to throw trains off the track because the engineers, in a panic, blew down brakes and equalized chances. In these latter days, asserts an Eastern writer, a whole herd of cows could not harm a train. If a thousand were to get in the way of a locomotive the engineer would “pull her wide open’’ and go scooting through. When the Captain of the Paris sought to reassure his passengers on the last trip from England he said, with much nonchalance: “Under full headway the Parte can cut through fifteen Spanish warships.’’ That was a slight exaggeration, of course, d>ut experience has provedmore than once that safety In a collision at sea depends on the speed of the moving body. A. steamer of 10,000 tons displacement traveling twenty knots an hour goes through an ordinary vessel like a hot knife through butter, escaping without a scratch.—Kansas City Journal. If you would fly high don’t attempt to um the wings of yo'ur Imagination.