Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — "No Kick Coming.” [ARTICLE]

"No Kick Coming.”

A railroad engineer who has been In the service so many years that Ills hair has grown iron-gray and his visage as stem as a wni riot's while he lias driven his Iron monster over the parallels of Iron, recently experienced his first collision. He came out of It with a-badly demolished engine and a sufficiently smashed-up leg for any occasion. The surgeons took him in charge and by dint of splints, baudages, skill and patience saved his Injured limb and got It on the road to recovery. The other day he walked out for the first time, and is he hobbled along on crutches, the Injured member looking very-unwieldy Indeed, a friend hailed him with: “Hello, Jim! how's that leg of yours getting nlongf’ The veteran has gray eyes, as clenr nnd penetrating as n youth’s, and they twinkled with a tonic effect as he said, laconically: “Ob, I can’t kick.”—New York. Times.