Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — What the Train Stopped For. [ARTICLE]

What the Train Stopped For.

“What has the train stopped for?” growled an ugly passenger to the conductor. “I don’t know, but I’ll go out and see if you desire it, sir ?” “Well, I wish to thunder you would; I never saw such an unaccommodating gang in my life as you railroad men.” The conductor left, and after ten minutes of impatient waiting the passenger went out on the platform and saw him sitting on a pile of ties. “Here, yon, conductor,” he shouted, “what’s the matter ?” “Oh, nothin’ only the engineer has discovered some lost motion in the running gear, and he has sent the fireman back to the next station to see if he can find it. Now go in and sit down, and when the train starts I’ll "ome in and tell yon, so yon won’t make the passengers think we are running over the ties by your infernal growling.”— Merchant Traveler'.